Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780806155845
Subjects: Mexican americans; New mexico, social life and customs
Description: Collection of forty-two short stories and vignettes that together paint a portrait of the Mora Valley, the real-life northern New Mexico setting for a group of small nuevomexicano villages. The author partially based his text on historical information and the oral tradition of tales about healers, ranch owners, archivists, soldiers, scribes, witches, warlocks, penitentes (lay religious men), priests and others.