Research Catalog

Title

The ballad of Plácida Romero : a woman's captivity & redemption / Aulton E. "Bob" Roland ; foreword by Jerry D. Thompson ; introduction by Enrique R. Lamadrid ; afterword by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Author

Roland, Aulton E.

Publication

Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thompson, Jerry D.
• Lamadrid, Enrique R.
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-

Description

140 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps; 26 cm

Summary

This book centers on the true story of Plácida Romero, a nuevomexicana who was taken captive and whose husband, Domingo Gallegos, was murdered at their Cebolla Springs Ranch by an Apache war party led by Nana during their raid into south and central New Mexico Territory in 1881. This incursion, one of the last major Apache raids into the territory, took place near the end of the southwestern Indian wars. Her captors took Plácida to Mexico, she subsequently escaped, was returned to her family, and then told her story to her relatives and community in Cubero. Plácida's story was later written as a ballad in Spanish and set to music. Aulton E. Roland first heard about Plácida Romero's plight when he met Arthur "Arty" Bibo in 1961. With his knowledge of the land and the Native American and Hispano people of the area, Roland helped Bibo research the events behind the story. Over time and after Bibo's death, Roland found the exact locations of the events of Nana's raid, some of them in very remote locations and in Mexico, and even chartered airplanes to aid in his search. He also corrected a number of historical misconceptions concerning the events of the bloody raid, discovering in the process that Plácida Romero never recovered her abducted daughter, Trinidad Gallegos, although the child had grown up with the Navajo people near Prewitt only fifty miles from Cubero, where Plácida lived, died, and is buried. The Ballad of Plácida Romero: A Woman's Captivity & Redemption is a harrowing, deeply moving, and incisive piece of New Mexico history. It is a provocative yet uplifting account of survival and suspense on a fragile frontier in territorial New Mexico in the late nineteenth century.

Subject

• Romero, Plácida
• Since 1848
• New Mexico > History > 1848-
• New Mexico

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-136) and index.

Call Number

JFF 23-221

ISBN

• 9780890136720
• 0890136726

LCCN

2022936406

OCLC

1346939246

Author

Roland, Aulton E., author.

Title

The ballad of Plácida Romero : a woman's captivity & redemption / Aulton E. "Bob" Roland ; foreword by Jerry D. Thompson ; introduction by Enrique R. Lamadrid ; afterword by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Publisher

Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-136) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1848

Added Author

Thompson, Jerry D., writer of foreword.

Lamadrid, Enrique R., writer of introduction.

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- writer of afterword.

Sudoc No.

NM F 701.81:B 35 nmdocs

Research Call Number

JFF 23-221