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Show i :'T^AV r -.- -.->v *~'.%\ "'".TT/r: 7p"u" But ^et u s come to Dan's happy romance. While '_ ' V '[.' _ _";_"; 'J'. A." local gossip asserted that he had many wives (including the crippled Apache who has been mentioned) and as many as a hundred children, such tales should be taken with a grain of salt, even if Dan boasted of them. It was about the year 1868 that he married Rosa, youngest daughter of the noted Manuelito, the most prominent Navaho leader in recorded history. It is said that Rosa had been stolen from the Navaho by the Ute and sold as a slave to Lucien (sic) Maxwell of the enormous Maxwell Grant in northeastern New Mexico, where Dan became ranch foreman. After this marriage, Dan took Rosa to western New Mexico and was appointed to a position (probably as interpreter) at Fort Defiance. At that time Fort Defiance was the center of activity west of the Rio Grande.* Their first child was Joaquin, named after Joaquin Murrieta, whom Dan admired so greatly. Employed at times as a cowhand, Joaquin died many years ago. As I remember h'm, Joaquin was a handsome youth whose features reflected his Indian ancestry. The next child, "Lupe" (Guadalupe), lives near the Pyramid Springs ranch-house, between Manuelito and Zuni, as a Navaho, but speaks excellent Spanish. ^ Jose' Inez, a son, helped his father at the ranch and is still living. He sometimes freighted for the late Charles Kelsey, trader at Zuni.- Another daughter, Amelia, now Mrs. Garduno, who resides alternately in Winslow, Arizona, and at the old family Pyramid Springs ranch in New Mexico, was born, like the other children, at the Deer Springs (Ojo Venado') ranch between Zuni and St. Johns, which was the family home until the removal to Pyramid springs. Amelia s husband, who had been employed by the the Santa Fe Railway, died about 1940. I wish to note here my deep obligation to Mrs. Garduno for important information regarding her father and the family, without which this effort toward a biography would be even more of a skeleton than it now is. Mrs. Garduho's son, Dan B. Garduno, is prominently associated with the Boy Scouts movement in Phoenix, Arizona. While on the subject of Dan's first family I wish to refer to an episode which Dan related to me. At the time of the narration Dan occupied the small cattle ranch at Ojo Venado. Perhaps revealing an Indian trait, for the Navaho were born raiders in earlier times, Joaquin took one of his father's steers and drove it to St. Johns, where he sold it for twenty-five dollars, with which plethora of riches he commenced to gamble and, with a run of fool's luck, soon broke the only bank in town. Following the custom of the times, *Since this was written I find in Frank D. Reeve's article on "The Federal Indian Policy in New Mexico, 1858-1880," chap. 271, New Mexico Historical Review, XIII, p. 40, Jan. 1938, the statement that the new Indian Agent, W. F. M. Arny, in_1873 charged two agency employees at Fort Defiance, Thomas V. Keam (later noted Indian trader aT-Keams Canyon, Arizona) and DuBois, with being "squawmen," because Arny believed "they had acquired inimical influence over the Navaho. Perhaps, in this case, the agent misjudged his men, and certainly the act did not smooth the way for him at his new post." |
