Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 49
Scope and Contents
Tom McGrath, b. 1887, Las Vegas. 1. Black Jack Ketchum (local history, bandit and gang eat meal at parent's house, take a horse but pay $20 for the meal), first San Miguel County jail cell came from Franklin, Missouri, hanging of Black Jack in Clayton, May 1, 1901); 2. The KKK, Klu Klux Klan (local history, 1913 klan burning crosses in Old Town Albuquerque, among klan members was Mabry, later governor of state); 3. The Santa Fe Trail (local history, Tom born on the trail, Fort Union, personally walked every inch from Dodge City, Kansas, to Santa Fe, outlines routes of both ends of the Santa Fe Trails); 4. La Liendre, NM (place name, little village near Trujillo, Highway 104); 5. Conversation (autobiography, Tom born 1887, mother was daughter French settlers of Taos, father Irish, Maxwell Land Grant, death of grandfather at Battle of Glorieta, in Civil War, March 28, 1862); 6. Kit Carson (local history, recollections of Carson, wife Josefa, relationship to Chavez family of Wagon Mound); 7. Las Vegas, NM (local history, settlement in 1835, early settlers Jesus Baca, Tomas de Baca, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca); 8. Manuel Maes (local history, besides the ballad or corrido about Manuel, Tom provides additional background on Maes, Hispanic buffalo hunter killed on the Llano Estacado, Staked Plains); 9. El Ferrocarril en Las Vegas (local history, arrival of the railroad in Las Vegas, July 4, 1879 and forty new families to settle); 10. La piedra negra (relato, story of large piece of coal from Madrid, New Mexico, El Rancho Largo, Galisteo, New Mexico, Don Juan Ortiz y Pino); 11. Conversacion,(reminiscence, humor, life of Tom, night in cemetery, his first Model T automobile, car, first mobile bar tavern in San Miguel county, drinking, the Klu Klux Klan KKK, Prohibition, school superintendant for San Miguel County, education, etc.); 12. La gavilla de Silva, Vicente Silva (reminiscence, Tom knew and wrote about Silva gant, Jose Chavez, Billy the Kid, Don Antonio, Jose Valdez from Wagon Mound); 13. El robo de $134,000 (local history, May 8, 1908, thieves rob town of French, New Mexico, using Tom's horses, they got away, never caught, he arrested and jailed as a suspect) .
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
- From the Collection: Cobos, Rubén (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu