Trujillo, Miguel (Las, Vegas, NM)
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Audio
Publication Date
1-10-1978
Recommended Citation
Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
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Born in 1893. Family Genealogy, worked thirty years in Colorado and in Santa Fe in the railroads and the mines and as a 'jardinero' [gardener]. La Voz del Pueblo and El Independente newspapers in Las Vegas, NM. His experience in the military service during WWI, the families' fear of getting their children drafted to serve in the war. Recalling some local men who were drafted to serve in the military with him, the tasks and training for battle and some entertainment in the Infantry. His platoon was made of a significant number of Hispanic young males, he never saw a black male in the troop, most of the soldiers in his platoon used interpreters as they did not speak much English. Most of the young soldiers did not know how to use a rifle. Some sergeants in command were Hispanic from New Mexico. Memories of his father working in Raton, his grandfather, Santiago Trujillo, was in Fort Union serving during the Civil War. His father was a fletero [freight man] who used to travel to Kansas by driving a car pulled by oxen. Farming life, local people and their stories. More on his experiences as a soldier, he got injured while stationed in California so he was dismissed from the military service. He regretted not having gone to serve in Europe. Memories of the soldiers who came back from WWI, his siblings and he remembers a train accident that happened in California. Los campos mineros in Colorado and the mineros strike, mines were managed by the military, his experience working in the mines, and related stories.