Gonzales, Mary / Manuel (Bueyeros, NM), part 1

Authors

• 1140 3. 007.1

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

8-12-1994

Comments

[In video collection] Family genealogy, the murder of Black Jack. Manuel talks about his family genealogy, grandparents came from Jemez to Los Alamos and then moved to Texquite. His father was born in El Texquite in 1885 and his ancestors were sheep herders. The homestead time and the large extension of land his family used to own. Los bueyeros [drivers of cars pulled by oxen] and fleteros [Freight men]. Stories of the bueyeros and fleteros' journeys to Missouri and Kansas. Local ranchers and cattle growers. In the early twentieth century, most of the ranchers either Hispanic or American used to be sheep farmers in that area. His father and he were sheep farmers until his father had a heart attack, so they sold out the herds. His military discharge in 1945 and taking care of his father's ranch. Mary and Manuel raised a white boy as their own. In 1950 his father decided to sell the ranch to a man who never came back to close the transaction, so Manuel bought the ranch to his father and his siblings. Mary describes her family. Her father was raised by his step-father, a captive Indian whose surname was Casados.

Recommended Citation

Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico