LEGENDS OF THE SPANISH SOUTHWEST [SOLD]

LEGENDS OF THE SPANISH SOUTHWEST

By Cleve Hallenbeck and Juanita H. Williams

Publisher: The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, 1938

First Edition, hardback, photographic illustrations and a map, 341 pages, deckled page edges, some of which have never been cut apart, indicating that the book has never been read by anyone.

FOREWORD

               “The colonization of our Atlantic seaboard and of our southwest were practically contemporaneous, and the courage, faith and endurance displayed by the English in conquering the wilderness of New England were not greater nor more steadfast than those shown by the Spanish in facing and overcoming the hazards of the inhospitable southwest.

               “The New England people preserved little of the romance of that period.  But the Spanish pioneers, while as practical as were their Nordic brothers, were a poetic people, and the one lone flower of romance that we find in New England’s colonial history can be matched by a whole garden of flowers garnered from the Spanish period of our southwest.  Even the Acadian story of immortal Evangeline cannot be ranked in heart interest above the California story of Concepción Arquello, or the Texas story of Juan Huisar.

               “We have chosen from the wealth of material available only such of the old Spanish legends as were, in our opinion, most worthy to survive as a part of our national literature.  Limitations of space made it necessary for us to reject a number of meritorious legends, and it was deemed advisable to omit some that have been published before or are well known, in order to preserve others that to date are practically unknown except in the districts where their scenes are said to have been enacted. 

               “Several of the stories appear to be historically verifiable.  Others doubtless are more or less fanciful, although probably even the supposedly fictional ones have a substantial foundation of fact.

               “We believe that the character of a people may be more clearly reflected in its legendary lore than in the recital of its political history, and it is our hope that these stories will reveal somewhat of the true character of the Spanish pioneers of our southwest.”

Cleve Hallenbeck

Juanita H. Williams

Roswell, New Mexico, 1938

 CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

New Mexico Legends

            La Jornada del Muerte

            El Camino del Padre

            The Bell of the San Miguel

            Sangre de Cristo

            La Conquistadora

            El Jardin de las Cruces

            Aguilar and Ysabel

Texas Legends

            The Margil Vine

            The Sculptor of the San José

            Bells of the San José

Antonio’s Leap

Francesca and Ferenor

A Legend of Baffle Point

Arizona Legends

            The Girl of Guevavi

            The Unfinished Tower of San Xavier

            Dorotea’s Roses

            Treasure Legends of Arizona

California Legends

            The Pearl that Defeated Vizcaino

            The Relief of San Diego de Acalá

            The Serra Tree

            The Pearls of Loreto

            Father Magín’s Alameda

            The Padre of the San Luis Rey

            Concha’s Lover

Other Southwestern Legends

            Our Lady of Guadalupe

            Maria Coronel

            Legends of the Blue Lady

            The Gran Quivira

Bibliography

Index