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El gringo (Record no. 3224)

082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 917.89 Dav
Item number 48
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 917.89 Dav
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Davis, William W. H.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title El gringo
Remainder of title or, New Mexico and her people
Statement of responsibility, etc W. W. H. Davis
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Rydal Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1962
Place of publication, distribution, etc Santa Fe, NM
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 432 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A veteran of the Mexican War, W. W. H. Davis returned to New Mexico in 1853 to become United States Attorney for the territory. He soon thought of himself as El Gringo, the stranger, who had much to learn about his new home and its people.

Equipped with a few changes of clothes, a two-book law library, and a ravenous curiosity, Davis recorded in his diary all that impressed him on his thousand-mile trip to Santa Fé and his thousand-mile court circuit. In 1856 he ransacked the diary to write El Gringo, selecting those features of custom, language, landscape, and history most likely to interest general readers.

El Gringo caught on quickly. His duties took him far and wide, to ramshackle jails locked with twine and to the homes of the rich and powerful. His legal training intensified his interest in and understanding of the longstanding quarrels between Indians and whites, between New Mexicans and Texans, between the established Spanish-speaking population and the influx of new settlers and traders from the United States.

His description of New Mexico is one of the earliest full-length accounts to appear in English and provides a stunning picture of a newly conquered land.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note 30349
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term Pueblo Indians
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term Navajo Indians
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term Description and travel
Geographic subdivision New Mexico
651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Source of heading or term New Mexico
General subdivision History
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 Shelving location Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Public note
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