Old One Eye Pete: Stories from Old New Mexico

Old One Eye Pete: Stories from Old New Mexico

by Loretta Miles Tollefson
Old One Eye Pete: Stories from Old New Mexico

Old One Eye Pete: Stories from Old New Mexico

by Loretta Miles Tollefson

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Overview

Short stories set in Old New Mexico, many based on actual people or events. Includes:

That Damn Mule - A green-broke mule balks at the rain-slicked shale on a narrow mountain path.

That'll Teach 'Em - A group of trappers encounters Apaches in the Gila wilderness.

They Were My Friends - A tale of friendship and betrayal during the Taos uprising against American occupation.

Decisions - A young woman must find a way to cross cultural barriers and marry the Pueblo man she loves.

Obsessions - An Episcopal Methodist missionary interferes in Maxwell Land Grant Company politics and suffers the consequences.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780998349831
Publisher: Palo Flechado Press
Publication date: 09/22/2018
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Loretta Miles Tollefson grew up in the American West in a log cabin built by her grandfather. She lives in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where she researches the region's history and imagines what it would have been like to actually experience it.

Table of Contents

Spanish Encounter – 1

Old Bill – 4

That Damn Mule – 9

Ute Park Encounter – 22

Water of Life – 27

Lost and Found – 30

Smith – 34

Culture Clash – 38

Naming Rights – 43

That’ll Teach ’Em – 45

A New Life – 48

Old One Eye Pete and the Half-Grown Pup – 51

Well Cultivated – 54

Beaver Tale – 62

Too Easy – 65

They Were My Friends – 70

Well-Founded Pessimism – 75

Decisions – 81

Travelin’ Man – 91

The Nuevomexicano Boy – 95

Protection – 99

Buzzard Brains – 102

A Poor Laborin’ Man – 105

Danger Signs – 109

Etown Experience – 113

Maxwell Before the Bar – 119

Brotherly Love – 122

Ambitions – 126

The Pollock Family’s Navajo Boy – 132

A Good Christian Girl – 146

Indecision – 156

News – 159

Obsessions – 162

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