Bustos de Lucero, Elena, (San Francisco, CO), part 1

Authors

1140 2. 014.1

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

4-1985

Comments

Discussion topics: Born in 1892. Family from Santa Cruz. She was born in La Cebolla. Stories about Apaches, black, and other native peoples in Tierra Amarilla. Los ciboleros [bison hunters], the 1918 Influenza and  mandated quarantine, the end of WWI. She moved to El Rito in 1911. Some young neighbors joined the Army to go the WWI. Seasonal job in Nevada and Denver's farms. La gente se ayudaba con los trabajos en los ranchos, el enjarrado que se renovaba cada dos años. The gallos in Tierra Amarilla, los juegos de los españoles con los comanches en Febrero, los pastores en Diciembre, verses she remembers from those games. Los hermanos penitentes en el Rito and the people there.

Recommended Citation

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