Simmons, Marc
Coronado's land essays on daily life in colonial New Mexico Marc Simmons - Albuquerque, NM University of New Mexico Press 1991 - 183 p
When New Mexicans dressed in skins --
On the trail of the footless stockings --
Frontier hairdressing --
How colonial ladies painted their faces --
An unmentionable subject --
Of ink and pens --
Playing-cards --
The forgotten dog --
Before supermarkets --
Slave raiding --
Apache exiles --
The sabinal Apaches --
On guard --
Enough to eat --
Acequias --
Carts on the Camino Real --
Muleteering --
The lore of sheep and goats --
New Mexico Ciboleros on the buffalo plains --
Nobility in Mexico --
Wills as history --
Rending history --
Indian and mission affairs in 1773 --
Account of disorders, 1778 --
Report of governor Chacón, 1803.
The twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here.
In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work habits Simmons captures the precariousness of lives threatened by drought, crop failure, Apache raids, and accidents. Simmons's essays permit us to imagine what people long ago thought and felt, which is a considerable accomplishment. But he doesn't stop there: the final section of this volume offers a glimpse of the historian at work. Entitled "Reading History," these essays introduce three late eighteenth-century documents and provide readers with a primer in understanding economic and social problems of the past.
62894
0826313132
9780826313133
Social Life and Customs--New Mexico
Social life and customs--New Mexico
978.900461 Sim 48
Coronado's land essays on daily life in colonial New Mexico Marc Simmons - Albuquerque, NM University of New Mexico Press 1991 - 183 p
When New Mexicans dressed in skins --
On the trail of the footless stockings --
Frontier hairdressing --
How colonial ladies painted their faces --
An unmentionable subject --
Of ink and pens --
Playing-cards --
The forgotten dog --
Before supermarkets --
Slave raiding --
Apache exiles --
The sabinal Apaches --
On guard --
Enough to eat --
Acequias --
Carts on the Camino Real --
Muleteering --
The lore of sheep and goats --
New Mexico Ciboleros on the buffalo plains --
Nobility in Mexico --
Wills as history --
Rending history --
Indian and mission affairs in 1773 --
Account of disorders, 1778 --
Report of governor Chacón, 1803.
The twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here.
In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work habits Simmons captures the precariousness of lives threatened by drought, crop failure, Apache raids, and accidents. Simmons's essays permit us to imagine what people long ago thought and felt, which is a considerable accomplishment. But he doesn't stop there: the final section of this volume offers a glimpse of the historian at work. Entitled "Reading History," these essays introduce three late eighteenth-century documents and provide readers with a primer in understanding economic and social problems of the past.
62894
0826313132
9780826313133
Social Life and Customs--New Mexico
Social life and customs--New Mexico
978.900461 Sim 48