Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1949, May 11, 1974
Item — Box: 5, CD: 452B
Scope and Contents
Part II of II. Frances Leon Swadish at the Folklore Society Conference, May 1974, Santa Fe. Begins at 00:20 and ends at 29:08. Introduction (good recording, Swadish talks about the first settlers in New Mexico); 2. Lecture (good recording, genizaros and cautivos, captives, Native American Indians, Hispanics, Spanish pobladores, she studied the lower Chama valley, horse and buggy study, old fashioned methodology, Ute reservation, land grants, Abiquiu, 19th century New Mexico history, records, marriages of cautivos, Spanish - speaking settlements, Hispanos, cultural assimilation, Catholic religion, life as a settler, early society, compares New Mexico to Latin American society, 1810-1820, when Hispanics, criollos were fighting for equal status, rights, politics).
Scope and Contents
Tom McGrath, from Las Vegas, NM, born 1887, at Folklore Society Conference, May 1974, Santa Fe. Begins at 29:40 and ends at 49:41. Lecture (good recording, about incidents of travel on the Santa Fe Trail in Northeastern New Mexico, leaders were political prostitutes, politicians, politics, Las Vegas, government, fight against barbed wire fences, ranching, open range, Anglo American pilgrims, Columbus, oral transmission of history, etc.).
Scope and Contents
Ruben Cobos, he is President Elect of the New Mexico Folklore Society, at conference, Santa Fe, May 1974. Begins at 49:42 and ends at 63:26. Lecture (good recording, about his research on the death of Pablita Angel, orphan girl, only woman in New Mexico to have been hung for the murder of her brother in law, hanging in 1861, she had two brothers and lived in Las Vegas in the 1850s - 1860s, she married one of the Martin brothers, Domingo Martin, in November of 1859, he was the son of Miguel Martin, an early New Mexico settler, women, Paulita Angel, other brother wanted to have relations with her, she defended herself from his abuse, President Lincoln issued her a pardon but it arrived too late, records are in San Miguel County, her story is in book called, Turmoil in New Mexico, by Keleher, also there are inditas and corridos about her that tell her story, her lawyer was named El Colorado because he was a red-head, recording cuts off abruptly at end of CD).
Dates
- 1949, May 11, 1974
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
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