Montoya, Roberto (Cimarron, Dawson, NM)

Authors

1140 1. 006

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

3-28-1975

Comments

Family Genealogy, raised in a ranch where his parents farmed grains and other crops. His father died when he was 15. Working in Dawson Mines for twenty years, the first explosion in those coal mines killed 300 men in the mines in 1913, Coal Mining, Gold Mining, Veterans, Being unemployed during the Depression Era and the beginnings of WPA. More on family relations, he attended School until the ninth grade and was taught in Spanish and English. Working in Bingham mines and Colorado mines.

Recommended Citation

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