Title(s): Killer-of-Enemies; Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians

Author(s): Traditional; Morris Opler (Editor)

Description: Killer-of-Enemies creates a landscape and customs for the Lipan Apache people.

Excerpt: After Killer-of-Enemies left Big Owl’s place, he went out and fixed up other places too. Killer-of-Enemies also started to make rules for the human beings. He went out on a raid. His home was at the Guadalupe Mountains. From there he went out to the sou...

Title(s): Agarró nomás la Cuarto [He Just Grabbed the Whip]; Abuelitos: Stories of the Rio Puerco Valley

Author(s): Eduardo Valdez (Author); Nasario García (Editor)

Description: Oral historian Nasario García interviewed many elders from the Río Puerco area of New Mexico, including Eduardo Valdez, who remembers the early days and the best cowboy around, Don Teodoro.

Excerpt: This Don Teodoro, and several others, not only him, because there were several horsemen there in Guadalupe, they say one day they penned up a herd of horses in a corral. And long ago they used to put two long poles on the corral and then they'd put a beam...