Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 28 LA: okay put it over there, he put it on, he says now you believe it, oh yes. But he was a good shot. FO: For heaven sakes, I've never heard the story that, ah, that Lopez was known about in Mexico and that he was in the army of Pancho Villa. How long have you known about this? LA: Well, I know that ever since I land here. Well, not ever since I land here, ever since I went to the mines in Bingham. But I know one Lopez he was quite famous and they say that's the same and his name was Martin Lopez and that one over there was Martin Ltpez and I wasn't very old at that time but ah, they claim that he, they chase all over for him and nobody find. FO: Oh yaah, they put in quite a big manhunt. Have you ever read the book about Lopez? LA: No, I used to have one but I never read much of it. I just said what I've heard people talking about and the way they put poison gas in the Apex mine, that's a big mine. I work in for about four or five years. It's a big mine and then they sent a naked woman on the Highland boy, fell for it and that's a true fact, that's a fact. That's no ... GT: I never heard that one. LA: I bet'cha a lot of people don't probably, they ain't saying it but it's a fact.