Esquibel, Agustin (Mora, NM), part 1
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Audio
Publication Date
1990
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Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
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[ca.1990-2000] Family genealogy, Wagon Mound, served in the Navy during WWII. Born on November 19, 1925. His maternal grandparents were ranchers in Wagon Mound. He remembers that he used to sheep shepherd as a young boy. Neighbors and relatives in the area, some 'gabacho' [white] neighbors. Memories of his childhood working in the ranch with his brothers and father. They used to grow watermelon, corn, and vegetables. They had sheep, goats, cattle, pigs. They watered the fields with water from 'la noria' [a well] they had within their property. Relatives and neighbors in Wagon Mound. Preserving foods; drying calabacitas, meat jerky: beef, lamb, pork cecina. His maternal grandparents used to grow wheat. His father used to have a small truck and the means of transportation were buggies and horses. Epimenio Martinez and other business people in Wagon Mound. Barber shops and cantinas. The opera house, boxing shows and training in that place. The source of family economy was the crops, the sale of livestock, and jobs that his father used to take to provide the family. He attended the school in Wagon Mound. He didn't finish high school. The 1930 Cyclone in Wagon Mound. Memories of the large amount of horses and donkeys in the ranch. He and other young neighbors from Mora joined the Navy in early 1943. Talking about other neighbors who served in the military: Pablo Vigil, Frank Lefebre, Alfonso Lefebre, a good basketball player, Alfredo Romero another basketball star in Wagon Mound. Memories of his time as 'borreguero' [sheep Shepherd] and how he strengthened his faith in the free range and wild environment while shepherding the sheep herds. His experiences in La Borrega. He later worked in La Borrega in Wyoming.