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New Mexico David, and Other Stories, and Sketches of the South-West: And Other Stories and Sketches of the Southwest
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I doubt very much if Lucario Montoya had ever heard of that wonderful fight of long ago between the shepherd stripling and Goliath of Gath. Certainly he had never read of those things, for a book would have been the most incomprehensible of mysteries to Lucario. But in the great and wonderful volume of Out-of-Doors he was an apt scholar, for in that he had had the most learned of schoolmasters - his Mexican father and his Indian acquaintances.
He could go out into the travelled road and read from the straggling hieroglyphics of the dust how long it had been since the last party passed; whether they were Mexicans or Indians, men or women, travelling fast or slowly, By night or by day. He could not read it half so well as an Indian, but he was a famous trailer none the less. In all out-door sports, too, that were Known then and there, he was an expert.
I doubt very much if Lucario Montoya had ever heard of that wonderful fight of long ago between the shepherd stripling and Goliath of Gath. Certainly he had never read of those things, for a book would have been the most incomprehensible of mysteries to Lucario. But in the great and wonderful volume of Out-of-Doors he was an apt scholar, for in that he had had the most learned of schoolmasters - his Mexican father and his Indian acquaintances.
He could go out into the travelled road and read from the straggling hieroglyphics of the dust how long it had been since the last party passed; whether they were Mexicans or Indians, men or women, travelling fast or slowly, By night or by day. He could not read it half so well as an Indian, but he was a famous trailer none the less. In all out-door sports, too, that were Known then and there, he was an expert.
217 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1969
About the author
Charles F. Lummis
172 books23 followersCharles Fletcher Lummis was a United States journalist and an activist for Indian rights and historic preservation. A traveler in the American Southwest, he settled in Los Angeles, California, where he also became known as a historian, photographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet and librarian. (Source: Wikipedia)
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August 10, 2009
I learned a lot about the southwest from the late 1800's. Lummis' stories never drag and are very entertaining.
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