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

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INTERVIE{.J: Franc is co So lario Page 2 FS: used to plant sugarcane, and plant corn, and wheat, and a little sweet-potato and potatoes. And then he ~.Jould help my grandfather, he was well---well liked by this here Hac endado, that owner of all this land. So we are doing all right until the revolution came, and then from there everything kind of started losing notch. VM: Do you remember the---the---the name of the Hac endado? FS: The name of the Hac e ndado was, Estradas. Estradas. They were kind a together, you know, from that little town. FO: Do you recall the relationship between your father and the Hac endado? What about the working relationships? Was it a good one? FS: He was well-liked by the H acendado because he was kind of a foreman, all he had to do was just check around that--­FO: Mmm-hmm. FS: The big places where they had this herd, big herds and round them up from one place, a field used to go hundreds of miles. You know, I remember when I was just a child, a little kid, I think my mother tells me, as soon as I start walking, he used to take me in his horse, and I remember that, staying out in the mountains where