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Coal Camp Days
Copyright © 2001
by Ricardo Garcia
U of New Mexico P
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The coalfields of northern New Mexico are the setting for the
remembrances of six-year-old Matias Montaño, a fictionalized
version of the author’s life in the last years of World War II.
García writes about ordinary coal-mining people as they struggle
to make a living and raise families, and about their heroism, joy
for living, and their belief in the value of education, hard work,
and the American Dream.
For Matias, his brothers, friends, and the adults in their lives,
the poor living conditions did not interfere with their adventures
and activities, which included collecting scrap iron, picking
chokecherries, tracking deer, hunting rattlesnakes, and riding
hand cars down the railroad tracks. This book presents a fresh
and richly textured view of life in a mining town from the Hispanic
viewpoint but includes folklore and stories told by the town’s many
other ethnic groups, among them Italian, Slavic, and Greek immigrants
and African Americans, all working together in support of the war
effort and in search of better lives. — from the jacket
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Coal Camp Justice
Copyright © 2004
by Ricardo Garcia
U of New Mexico P
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A prequel novel to Coal Camp Days, chronicles the egregious events causing the
coal miners to form a union with the threat of strike.
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On the Way to San Francisco Bay
Copyright © 2001
by Ricardo Garcia
Salmon Run Publishers
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In the spirit and style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, ten professors drive a van
to San Francisco on a pilgrimage to Silicon Valley with one simple rule: you can speak at
any time so long as you speak in rhyme. At trip's end, they've told 33 rhymed tales, one
ode, and sang two songs, the themes of each narrative as diverse as the group of weary
travelers. — from the publisher
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Brother Bill’s Bait Bites Back
and other tales from the Raton
Copyright © 2004
by Ricardo Garcia
U of NE P
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Orally transmitted folklore from an ethnically diverse region (Hispanic, Anglo, Slavic,
Middle Eastern, African American, Asian), these short stories are tales told to me of
events (1905-1945) in the Raton region Colfax County, NM.
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