| Title |
Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 13, numbers 135 through 146 |
| Alternative Title |
Cornelio Candelaria, Old San Acacio, Colorado: an interview by John R. Tapia, August 10, 1973; Duván Luján, Genaro Court, New Mexico: an interview by Greg Coronado, August 5, 1973; Duván Luján, Albuquerque, New Mexico: an interview by Greg Coronado, August 5, 1973; Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Corpus Christi, Texas: an interview by Greg Coronado [August 10, 1973]; Ben Romero Sr., Fort Garland, Colorado: an interview by John R. Tapia, August 13, 1973 [in Spanish and English]; Ben Romero Sr., Fort Garland, Colorado: an interview by John R. Tapia, August 14, 1973 [in Spanish and English] |
| Creator |
Candelaria, Cornelio; Luján, Duván, 1919- ; Garcia, Hector P., -1996.; Romero, Ben, 1882- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Coronado, Greg, 1946-2012; Tapia, John Reyna |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1973-08-05; 1973-08-10; 1973-08-13; 1973-08-14 |
| Date Digital |
2015-01-15 |
| Spatial Coverage |
San Luis, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5437682/ ; San Acacio, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5437633/ ; Fort Garland, Costilla County, Colorado, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5422141/ ; Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/4683416/ ; Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5454711/ ; Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5493811/ |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Colorado--History; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Biography; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Social conditions; Mexican Americans--Texas--History; Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography; Mexican Americans--Texas--Social conditions; Chicano movement--Texas; Chicano movement--Colorado; Chicano movement--New Mexico |
| Keywords |
Discrimination; Great Depression; Ethnic relations; Chicanos; Farm labor; Agricultural laborers; Railroad workers; Mexican Revolution; Mexican traditions; SOCIO; Catholic Church; Mexican immigrants; Mexican American children--Education; American G.I. Forum; Veterans |
| Description |
Transcripts of interviews held in 1973 with Cornelio Candelaria of Old San Acacio, Colorado; Dr. Hector P. Garcia of Corpus Christi, Texas, founder of the American G. I. Forum; and Ben Romero Sr., of Fort Garland, Colorado (in Spanish and English) |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng; spa |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
For description of each interview, see: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv23580 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 10 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s62z2w60 |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans--Biography; Mexican Americans--Social conditions; Chicano movement |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039208 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z2w60 |
| Title |
Page 266 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039181 |
| OCR Text |
Show INTERVIEW: Romero Page 7 and a new saddle and I sold it in Pueblo, Colorado. He was very intelligent, he was a ~' a reddish type horse, my compadre Silviano had a black horse and the deceased Pedro, dark horse and we sold them all there. I received $150 for the horse that I had and the saddle, and they received the same, more or less. And we went from Pueblo, Colorado to Denver. We arrived on train, we paid the passage to there. And at night when we arrived there we determined to beat the train to ride the train as tramps, and no sooner said than done. We made our plan and with money in our pockets, what do you know about that? And you should have seen the trouble we had tramping! I was lucky because we were rather smart in getting these trains. I used to hang on to the sides, and it occurred to me to jump on the blind, that is the place between the engine and the first coach, the express coach. Well, we arrived at Cheyenne, we were lucky, from Denver to Cheyenne. And there we decided to beat the train again tramping to Laramie. That was our first stop in Cheyenne, then Laramie, and then in Laramie we stayed a while. I worked there in the yard of the Union Pacific, I worked there a month working on the ties taking out spikes, and replacing them with new ones. At that time I spoke very little English, I learned to speak English myself. I did |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z2w60/1039181 |
