Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Behind the mountains (Record no. 1672)

020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 25569
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 917.89 La F
Item number 48
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 917.89 La F
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name La Farge, Oliver
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Behind the mountains
Statement of responsibility, etc by Oliver La Farge
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Houghton- Mifflin
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1956
Place of publication, distribution, etc Boston, Massachusetts
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 179 p.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title

Wedding at Rociada --
A voice in mid-August --
The loss of a hero --
God in the mountains --
The snow too deep --
The news from Rociada --
The convert --
Miss Eufemia's nose --
A job and a lunch --
Visit of politeness --
The cap in the snow --
The wind from the sea.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Imagine yourself in a secluded green valley high in the mountains of northern New Mexico. You are one of a large family who own a sheep and cattle ranch surrounding the little village of Rociada. Your father, a Spaniard, is the revered and distinguished Jose Baca, and your mother, Dona Marguerite, is of French descent. Everyone in the village loves and respects your family as their patrones, appealing to them in times of trouble and bringing them gifts at Christmas. Out of the everyday life of the Baca family, the village people, their customs and superstitions, Oliver La Farge has drawn, for example, the touching story of young Pino's disillusionment with his hero, the horse thief Pascual. Or there is the account of the wedding shoes that pinched until the bride was in tears. Then there is Carmen's discovery of treachery in the unlit hovel of the blind religious and the amusing tale of how Pino was punished for his arrogance the night the Archbishop came to dinner. But beneath this rippling surface of adventure, tenderness, and humor rides the gradual encroachment of the outside world on Rociada, one of the last survivals of the ancient Spanish way of life in the United States. Finally, this idyllic village succumbs to the invasion of tourists and the machine, and Rociada becomes only a dream of the past -- Book jacket.; The life of the Bacas, a Spanish ranch-owning family in the New Mexican highlands, in the early 1900's.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note 25569
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Baca family.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term Manners and customs.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term New Mexico
General subdivision Social life and customs.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type sw 900 - 999
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Permanent Location Current Location Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Barcode Date last seen Public note
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