...This compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish...

...New Mexico's Anglo businessmen responded an article written by Katharine Fullerton Gerould with typical indignation. They ignored her treatment of Hispanos and took issue instead with her claims of roving outlaws and political graft. Mary Austin's defense of New Mexico's “Spanish colonial” people...

...Jack T. Taylor bought land in the 1960s and began logging in the mountainous area where his land was situated, which historically had been used by the Hispanos who lived on adjoining pieces of property in the vicinity. His logging operation not only interfered with the San Luis residents' common...

...This chapter investigates the Fiesta de Santa Fe, a festival whose largely Anglo leaders decided in the late 1920s that real villagers, not stage pageantry, should be the main attraction. The vision of a domesticated Hispano folk culture had a powerful effect on Santa Fe's Anglos. Capt. Don Diego...