When We Were Young in the West

Presents biographical sketches of New Mexican children from different cultures, races, and classes who represent the strength and diversity of this state's heritage.

Preface

9

(2)

Introduction

11

(2)

Trail Childhood

13

(15)

Marion Sloan Russell Adventure on the Santa Fe Trail, 1852

13

(7)

Working on the Santa Fe Trail, 1867

20

(8)

Jose Librado Gurule

Military Childhoods

28

(9)

The Future General's Youth at Fort Selden, 1884--86

28

(4)

Douglas MacArthur

The Post Surgeon's Son at Fort Union, 1887--1891

32

(5)

Aubrey Lippincott

Village Childhoods

37

(14)

Cibola Memories Filled With Tradition

37

(7)

Abe Pena

A Life of Harmony and Respect

44

(7)

Cleofas Martinez Jaramillo

City Childhoods

51

(18)

A Healthseeker's Diary, Santa Fe, 1859

51

(10)

John Watts

Going to the Territorial Fair

61

(8)

Kenneth C. Balcomb

Farming Childhoods

69

(44)

Becoming a Peon de la Acequia

69

(4)

Francis Quintana

Humble Lives Filled with Joy

73

(29)

Angelica Gurule Chavez

Marcelina Miranda Chavez

Homesteading on the Prairie

102

(11)

Lula Collins Daudet

Ruth Collins Roberts

Ranching Childhoods

113

(42)

Waiting for Rain---and Storytelling---on the Llano

113

(7)

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca

Live and Let Live in Cattle Country

120

(9)

Agnes Morley Cleaveland

Bravely Defying His Handicap

129

(10)

Wilbur Franklin Coe

Branding Calves and Saving a Cow

139

(10)

Ralph Reynolds

The Trouble with Rattlesnakes

149

(6)

Lindley J. Stiles

Troubled Childhoods

155

(12)

Billy the Kid's Teenage Years in Silver City

155

(5)

Finding a Place to Stand

160

(7)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Mining Childhoods

167

(18)

Boyhood in a Frontier Silver Mining Camp

185

James K. Hastings

Oral Histories: Coal Town Childhood

175

(10)

Native American Childhoods

185

(10)

Hard Times and Good on the Navajo Reservation

185

(6)

Tall Woman

Full Circle

191

(4)

Lori Arviso Alvord

School Lives

195

(49)

Mischief and Responsibility at a Homesteaders' School

195

(5)

Tomas Wesley Brown

Oral Histories: Pueblo Children at the Santa Fe Indian School

200

(6)

Oral Histories: Hispanic Boys at the Menaul School in Albuquerque

206

(11)

Roughing It at the Elite Los Alamos Boys Ranch School

217

(10)

Charles S. Pearce

Integrating a White High School in the 1950s

227

(17)

Haroldie Kent Spriggs

Sammie J. Kent

Wartime Childhoods

244

(12)

World War II in Albuquerque

244

(5)

Margarita Graciella Armijo

Oral Histories: Teenage Years at Los Alamos, the Most Secretive Town of World War II

249

(7)

Athletic Childhoods

256

(17)

Sports---From Football to Bicycling---in the 1890s

256

(7)

Roy A. Stamm

A Track Star in Albuquerque, 1960s

263

(10)

John Baker

Conclusion

273

(48)

Chapter Notes

321

(16)

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When We Were Young in the West

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