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Journal of the Southwest articles from September 2006
This journal publishes articles, essays and reviews regarding the Greater Southwest history, folklore, politics, borderland studies, anthropology, and more.
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Journal of the Southwest archives from September 2006
Voices from inside a black snake, Part II: Sonoran roadside capillas.
September 22, 2006... On Saturday, May 19, 1999, we were chatting with Padre Guillermo Coronado, parish priest of Ures, Sonora. Padre Coronado remarked that if one encountered an elaborate (and therefore expensive) roadside chapel or shrine containing both the...
A New Mexican "Davy Crockett": Walt Disney's version of the life and legend of Elfego Baca.
September 22, 2006... Late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-century New Mexico abounded with larger-than-life historical figures: Pat Garrett, Madame Millie, Pancho Villa, Albert Fall, and Victorio, to name just a few. The most notorious, William F. Bonney, or Billy the...
Company town, border town, small town: transforming place and identities on the U.S.-Mexico border.
September 22, 2006... My desire to live and study in Douglas, Arizona, a town adjacent to the Mexican city of Agua Prieta, Sonora, arose from an interest in borders. The very concept was evocative: the boundary between one thing and another, the place where two...
Mapping the work of stories in Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico.(Gasper Perez de Villagra)
September 22, 2006... Published in 1610, Gasper Perez de Villagra's epic poem Historia de la Nueva Mexico relates the history of Spanish exploration and settlement of lands north of Mexico during the first years of the Juan de Onate expedition. Throughout the poem...