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Page iii Coronado's Land Essays on Daily Life in Colonial New Mexico Marc Simmons University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simmons, Marc. Coronado's land: essays on daily life in colonial New Mexico/ Marc Simmons.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8263-1313-2 0-8263-1702 (pbk) 1. SpaniardsNew MexicoSocial life and customs Anecdotes. 2. New MexicoSocial life and customs Anecdotes. I. Title F799.S59 1991 978.9'00461dc20 91-21689 CIP 1991 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Second paperbound printing, 1998 Permission is acknowledged for the right to reproduce the following essays by Marc Simmons: El Palacio, Quarterly Magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, Spring 1983 (V. 89 No. 1): "New Mexico's Colonial Agriculture." The Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc., Hispanic Arts and Ethnohistory in the Southwest: New Papers Inspired by the Work of E. Boyd, edited by Marta Weigle (Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1983): "Carros y Carretas: Vehicular Traffic on the Camino Real." Southwest Heritage, Winter 1982-1983 (V. 12 No 4): "New Mexican Ciboleros on the Buffalo Plains." Historical Society of New Mexico. "Account of Disorders in New Mexico, 1778." New Mexico Historical Review, 1985 (V. 60 No. 1): "The Chacn Economic Report of 1803."

Page v For the Paloheimos of el Rancho de las Golondrinas

Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix Part One When New Mexicans Dressed in Skins 3 On the Trail of the Footless Stockings 8 Frontier Hairdressing 12 How Colonial Ladies Painted Their Faces 17 An Unmentionable Subject 21 Of Ink and Pens 26 Playing-Cards 31 The Forgotten Dog 36 Before Supermarkets 40 Slave Raiding 47 Apache Exiles 51 The Sabinal Apaches 56 On Guard 61 Enough to Eat 65 Acequias 74

Page viii Carts on the Camino Real 78 Muleteering 85 The Lore of Sheep and Goats 92 New Mexico Ciboleros on the Buffalo Plains 97 Nobility in Mexico 103 Part Two Wills as History 109 Reading History 114 Indian and Mission Affairs in 1773 118 Account of Disorders, 1778 127 Report of Governor Chacn, 1803 162 Selected Readings 173 Index 175

Page ix PREFACE In his charming little book, The Land of Poco Tiempo, author Charles F. Lummis declared a century ago that colonial New Mexico had witnessed some of the most incredible pioneering the world has ever seen. The early Spanish settlers, he concluded from his archival researches and tale-collecting, had made superhuman marches, suffered awful privations, and shown the most devoted heroism. Lummis, who tended to view the past through a romantic lens, was prone to exaggeration, but his enthusiasm for things Hispanic and subjects New Mexican was altogether genuine. I borrowed some of that enthusiasm when long ago I eagerly read The Land of Poco Tiempo and other Lummis titles on the Southwest. He was an outsider, just as I was, who approached the land and people of New Mexico from afar and had become captivated by their rich

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