Among the cottonwoods
Subtitle: the enduring Rio Abajo villages of Peralta and Los Pinos, New Mexico before 1940
By: Francelle E. Alexander
Publisher: Rio Grande Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Los Ranchos, NM
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781890689834
Subjects: Hispanic Americans; Villages; Local History; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline of Selected Historical Events in New Mexico; title: Early Land Grants and Entrepreneurs; title: Villages Are Established; title: Familias Ricas : Their Wealth and Marriages; title: Mariano Chavez and the Beginning of Los Pinos; title: Change and Continuity with the Americans; title: Adapting : The Next Generation of Oteros; title: Religion : Old Traditions and New Beliefs; title: The Villages are Drawn into the Civil War; title: Los Pinos And The Military in the 1860s; title: The 1870s and 1880s : A Time of Transition; title: Division and Cohesiveness : Churches and Schools; title: On The Grim Side : Disease, Death, and Violence; title: J. Francisco Chavez : A Man of Nineteenth Century New Mexico; title: Into the Twentieth Century; title: The Struggle of the 1920s and 1930s; title: Summary and Conclusions; title: Family Trees; title: Descendants of Dolores Perea; title: Descendants of Vicente Otero; title: Appendix.