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Show ^1 mood Dan afterward said that it might have been better 12 if he had been left there to die. And yet, speaking of drink, when asked what he thought of prohibition, Dan said that it was the best thing for the country and regretted that it had not come sooner. But Dan was then about 87, and evidently losing his grip. Rosa having passed away, Dan found another wife in Doratea Escorcia, a Spanish- Mexican of comely appearance, devoted to her religion, industrious, and a good wife and mother. The marriage took place about 1887 at Cubero, New Mexico, which was Doratea's home. The children by this marriage were: Daniel, who died in infancy; Clara, who passed away when about six years of age; Margaret ("Maggie"), now Mrs. Montoya of Gallup, and Emily DuBois, head nurse at the Garden Hospital in San Francisco. Maggie and Emily respectively were named after the sister-in-law and the wife of Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologic researcher at Zuni for the Bureau of American Ethnology- Margaret W. Magill and Emily T. M. Cushing, who also became the godparents of the two children when baptized at Zuni by a Father Barrilla (?). Mrs. Montoya's husband, by the way, recalled when Dan rode horseback into the Page Bar in Gallup and ordered drinks for the crowd! I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Emily DuBois for the aid she, like her step-sister Amelia Garduno, has rendered me in assembling the data for this narration. A fifth child-not a full blood-brother, however-is Jose' Inez, born in Albuquerque. Jose' was turned over to an Albuquerque family named Caravajal, received a good education and learned the trade of carpenter. At this writing he has a State position in Gallup. I have referred incidentally to Dan's innate honesty. There was never a time when his credit was questioned. Any of the merchants whom I have mentioned would have given him almost unlimited supplies for future payment in order that his little trading store at Pyramid Springs could continue business with the Navaho. On one occasion Lorenzo Hubbell gave him $1500 to purchase horses in California. In Prescott the gambling saloons were a little too much for Dan-he lost his entire wad; but after several months he returned with the horses. How he recouped the fortune we do not know. Casual mention has been made of Dan's many wounds, of which everyone who knew him was familiar. Mr. Vanderwagen informed me that "Dan's body was filled with lead and arrowheads. Anyone could feel them under his skin." Evon Vogt wrote in 1920 that he marveled "that a man could carry so many wounds in his body and yet be alive. He had a scalp wound almost around his head where Apaches in a fight had cut him to the bone and would have killed him had not a lucky shot from a companion killed the Indian. In his chest he was wounded. There were arrow cuts in his leg, hand, and arm. A bullet he carried in his leg. The leg had been broken purposely by the Utes and caused him pain when he walked around with a cane." While Dan and his family lived at the little Pyramid Springs ranch after his tenure with the Hemenway Expedition, the only visible means of support was the very meager |
