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Debbie Sanchez, 1973

 Item — Box: 1, CD: 25

Scope and Contents

Anonymous: Anonymous, Valencia County stories, Belen. (Local history, good recording, Maximiano Montano robs wine from garage of Placido Cordova, as thief is leaving, they meet and Montano clubs Cordova on the head, they go to court, etc. Also discussion of murder, death, muerte of Adolfo Sanchez, by Leandro Olguin, and a gun battle with Bone Torres, Bonifacio Torres, Miguel Peralta also in the fight, Sheriff Ignacio Aragon and Bonifacio Olguin).

Sanchez: Ignacio Sanchez, b. 1903, Belen, NM. 1. Muerte de Bonifacio Olguin, field hand and neighbor, relato (story, a young man, he returns on train from working on a farm near Clovis, suspected of some crime, locked up by train conductor in the bathroom, breaks a window, jumps out, found dead beside the train tracks, railroad, laborer, death, muerte, labor, employment); 2. Encuentro con un oso and other stories (relato, story, Ignacio tells about bear in railroad yard where he worked; how Franque - Frank Gonzales lost his mind when found his wife dead in weeds he was cutting, women; Ignacio as boy, children, worked in general store of German named Meyers in Belen, sold coffins, funeral, burial, death, etc.); 3. El padre de La Joya (anecdote, priest of La Joya, could not speak Spanish very well, asked parishioners to plaster the church walls, play on words using zoquete - mud, and su ojete - buttocks, humor, language).

Sanchez: Mrs. Lucinda Sanchez, b. 1913, Belen, NM. 1. La gallina que canto como un gallo (relato, Lucinda hears a chicken that sang like a rooster, bad omen); 2. Recuerdos de su abuelo (relato, her grandfather had a premonition, took pictures of home and family but died before he could see the photos, he kept a bull snake in the barn as a pet, when he went blind he tied a rope from door of house to outhouse so could find it).

Sanchez: Ignacio Sanchez, b. 1903, Belen, NM. Excusados de afuera (relato, story, old pit outhouse compared to modern water toilet, how to make a pit outhouse, story of worker who fell into a pit).

Sanchez: Ignacio and Lucinda Sanchez. Reminiscencias (relato, story of son as child, mischievous, children, story of treasure hunts, people who buried money as not believe in banks; story of man in Pueblo, Colorado, who knocked down a shed and found money inside the cement foundation.)

Dates

  • 1973

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English, Spanish

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
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Albuquerque NM 87131
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