| 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 276 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_sspu |
| ID |
1039191 |
| OCR Text |
Show INTE VIE~-1: Romero Page 17 they learned that Lou Larson was the champion of the Mormons in shearing, they then looked for someone among all the Raza, among the Spanish speaking in Taos, one who was superior, who could beat Lou Larson, and they found him who was the deceased Lutero Santistevan from Walsenberg, Lutero Santistevan and this deceased Benito could beat any one of them, but he was dead by the time they made this c ompetition to win, to beat Lou Larson. And I saw him, I saw Santistevan shearing, I was in the same group and I liked to see him shear wool. Lou Larson beat my compadre Santistevan to push through more sheep down the shoot, he sheared 200 sheep, also Santistevan sheared 200 sheep, but when the judges went to see the sheep, the work they had done, my compadre Lutero beat him because the sheep, his sheep were cleaner of wool and Lou Larson's still had a lot of wool on them, and this way, Lutero beat him. For us it was a proud act, this was the last time that they had this competition that I saw . I think this occurred in approximately 1910, because in 1912 was the time that I received the job, running a corral, I too ran a corral. I had very good relationship with the Mormons, they would not move their sheep in the direction of Jasper [Casper], they had their own areas along the lines of the Union Paciflc. I did not sec any Mormons in the Drca |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z2w60/1039191 |
