Ruben Cobos, recorder, May 10, 1975
Item — Box: 5, CD: 454A
Scope and Contents
Part I of II. Recordings at the New Mexico Folklore Society Conference, May 10, 1975, at Student Memorial Center, Western New Mexico University, in Silver City, New Mexico. In 1975 Ruben Cobos was President of the Society. Here is speaker, Fern Lyon, author and free lance folklorist from Los Alamos, NM. Begins at 00:02 and ends at 33:07. 1. Introduction (good recording, introduction of Fern Lyon); 2. Lecture (good recording, on Grant County western New Mexcio folklore, stories, woman escaped from jail using her corset strings, women, diamond mines, diamond fields, 1870, two 49'rs, forty niners, from California, gold rush, Phil Arnold and John came to the western United States to prospect for a mining company, San Francisco, James Cooper, salesman for mining machinary, the diamond drill, 1870-1871, The Pyramid Mountain of Silver Mining Company, diamond mining, fake diamonds, White Oaks, New Mexico, Masonic Lodge, Agnes Needer Snider, Aggie grandmother, etc. Lyon will have article on the diamond swindle in November issue of the New Mexico Magazine. Program for conference in Cobos folder).
Scope and Contents
Grace Nickle, at New Mexico Folklore Society Meeting, Silver City, 1975. Begins at 33:09 and ends at 52:50. 1. Introduction (good recording, introduction of Grace Nickle, Head of History and Social Science Department at Silver High School); 2. Lecture, Mining folklore (good recording, stories, mysteries, legends, the Lost Dutchman Mine, Superstition Mountains, all mines are lost until we find them, legends, Spanish exploration, Marcos de Niza, Seven Cties of Cibola, sun dried adobe, 1680 Pueblo Revolt, historical documents of 1713 and 1725 shed more ligh on topic, stated that there was no silver or gold mines in the area, all gold and silver came up from Mexico, silver bullets, white wolves, death, burials, bodies disappeared, old man and old woman, werewolf, werewolves, West of Socorro, Magdalena rock, named by the Spanish, considered a sacred place, copper deposits, other mines, etc.).
Scope and Contents
Dr. Ruben Cobos, at New Mexico Folklore Society Meeting, Silver City, 1975.. Begins at 53:00 and ends at 71:25. Lecture (good recording, lecture by Cobos on folklore, on the death of Manuel Maes, personal experiences, working at a young age, shadow bus, Mexico, four men and three women, talks about deaths in New Mexico folklore, muerte, Bernando Gruber, Pablita Angel, Manuel Maes, history, July 16, 1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain, New Spain, 1835 Maes family arrived in Las Vegas, New Mexico, genealogy, the people of the town were given the same land grant that had been previously given to the Baca family, overlap, the Bacas received one million acres elsewhere, and the town of Las Vegas kept the land, grew into the city today, other lands the Bacas received, talks about Angel Fire Ski Resort, talks about ballad of Manuel Maes, excrutiating death, fell on his lance, spear, had been sold a blind horse, places, the Rio Colorado, 1873, The Red River, aka The Canadian River, etc.).
Scope and Contents
Dr. Muriel Latham Pfeifer, Second Vice - President of the New Mexico Folklore Society, here at Silver City, Conference in May 1975, later at the conference she was elected, becomes First V P, Professor of English. Begins at 71:26 and ends at 72:49. Announcement (good recording, official invitation to the University of Albuquerque, talks about the New Mexico Folklore Society, founded in 1931, 46 years old as a Society).
Dates
- May 10, 1975
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