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title	:	We Fed Them Cactus Paso Por Aqui
author	:	Gilbert, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826315038
print isbn13	:	9780826315038
ebook isbn13	:	9780585202877
language	:	English
subject	Hispanic Americans--Llano Estacado--Social life and customs, Llano Estacado--Social life and customs, Mexican Americans--Llano Estacado--Social life and customs.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	F392.L62G55 1994eb
ddc	:	976.4/800468
subject	:	Hispanic Americans--Llano Estacado--Social life and customs, Llano Estacado--Social life and customs, Mexican Americans--Llano Estacado--Social life and customs.

Page iii We Fed Them Cactus Second Edition Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Introduction by Tey Diana Rebolledo With Drawings by Dorothy L. Peters UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gilbert, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, 18981991 We fed them cactus / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca; introduction by Tey Diana Rebolledo; with draw ings by Dorothy L. Peters. 2nd ed. p. cm. (Pas por Aqu) ISBN 0-8263-1503-8 (paper) 1. Hispanic AmericansLlano EstacadoSocial life and customs. 2. Llano EstacadoSocial life and customs. 3. Mexican AmericansLlano EstacadoSocial life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. F392.L62G55 1994 93-11951 976.4'800468dc20 CIP 1954 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Second edition. Introduction 1994 by the University of New Mexico Press. Second printing, 1998

Page v TO LUIS

Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction xiii I. The Llano 1. Loneliness without Despair 1 II. El Cuate 2. The Night It Rained 9 3. The Rodeo 17 4. Fiesta at San Hilario 31 5. Buffalo Hunters 39 6. Comancheros 47 III. Places & People 7. Chapels on the Llano 51 8. Sheep on a Thousand Hills 68 9. Las Vegas Grandes 80 IV. Bad Men & Bold 10. Vicente Silva, Bandit Leader 89 11. The Field of Burdocks 111 12. Incidents 121

Page viii V. Within Our Boundaries 13. Mustangs 126 14. "Milo Maizes" 138 15. A Country School 154 16. The Drought of 1918 171 Glossary 179 Index 181

Page ix PREFACE This is the story of the struggle of New Mexican Hispanos for existence on the Llano, the Staked Plains. Through four generations, our family has made a living from this landfrom cattle and sheep, and lately by selling curios, soda pop, gasoline and food to tourists traveling over U.S. Highway 66. The stories of buffalo hunts and other events on the Llano were handed down to us by my grandfather's employees, by neighbors on the land, by our own ranch hands, and mostly by Pap, who spent a lifetime on the Cejathe Cap Rock, and who traveled over the Llano before the fencing of the land. In the description of the rodeo, I have used fictitious names, since it would be impossible for me to remember the names of all the people who were mentioned by El Cuate in his tales. It has been many years since he passed on. I was about ten years old when I heard him tell about the rodeos, the buffalo hunt, the mustangs, and other stories which I have tried to tell as nearly as El Cuate told them. Don Manuel Salcedo lived, but in real life he had another name. All of the chapters present authentic historical facts. For dates which my informants did not have at the tip of the tongue, I consulted New Mexico histories and the Spanish archives of New Mexico. The dates of the founding of the chapel may not be exact, but they are within one or two years

Page x of the actual time. These dates I obtained from church records and from people who lived in different areas of the Llano. On June 10, 1944, I visited Don Paco Baca in Puerto de Luna. He had reached his one-hundredth birthday on April second of that year. From him I secured the history of Puerto de Luna, Las Colonias, Santa Rosa and Antonchico. His health was failing but he had a clear memorythe dates which he gave me corroborated with those which I found in church records. He related many incidents about his trips over the Chihuahua and Santa Fe trails of commerce. Don Paco died on August 24, 1944.

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