Tío Cowboy: Juan Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman

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Index Page numbers with f indicate photographs. Adams, Cesar, 129 Adams, J. J., 129 Adams, Jorge, 129 Adams, Roy, 94 Adams, Tonia Flores, 129, 133 Adams family (La Becerra community ), 10 agriculture. See farming Aguirre family (La Becerra community ), 10 air conditioning, 111 Alexander, Ben, 51 Alexander, Jigger, 123 Alexander, Maurice, 51–52, 109–10, 167 Alexander, Ruth, 123 Arce, Vicente, 119 Armstrong, George, 58 Armstrong, Sal, 58 Arroyo Los Machos, 169 Atalaya School, 165 automobiles. See cars and trucks Autry, Gene, 66, 125–26 Babbas (employee), 147 badges, rodeo, 82 bail bond story, 22–23 banking, 51–52, 109, 130, 131, 141, 167 barbershop story, 174 Barker, Texas, 112 Bartosch, E. G., 124 baseball park, 159–60 Beaumont, Texas, 68 Becerra community, 10, 18, 29, 32 belt buckles, 112 Benavides, Arturo, 3 Benavides, Maria del Carmen (later Garcia), 7 Bert (horse), 75 Bigotes (employee), 147 Blackshear, Judge, 162 Las Blancas Ranch, 10, 20–22, 27–31, 41, 42. See also haciendas, self-sufficiency bootlegging, 22–23 boots, 85 Borderfest celebration, 153–54, 156 Boston Garden, 72, 94 Brown, Shirley, 111, 117 buckles, belt, 112 buffle grass, 3, 111 bull rider story, 95–97 buñuelos, 51 burials and funerals: employees, 168; family, 14, 113, 123, 178–79, 184; neighbors, 174, 175 buried money story, 101–102 188 Index Burk, Clyde, 72, 75f, 94 Burwell, Nebraska, 80, 82–83, 113 Butt (horse), 127 cabañuelas, 12 cabrito, 172, 173 cactus burning, 2–3, 30–31 Cakeland Bakery, 131–32 Calcetines (horse), 75 calf roping, described, xii–xiv, 27–28. See also rodeos and matches Callaghan Ranch, 44–46 Camilo (man), 177 Campos, Ramona (later Flores), 128–29, 132–33 canvas jackets, 148 captive story, 170–71 caretaking years, xvii–xviii, 153, 161–80, 182 carne seca, 35–36 Carrizo Springs, Texas, 61 cars and trucks: accidents, 143–45, 176; heater story, 130–31; Juan’s buying practices, 52; locked keys story, 131; mud hole stories, 176; neighbors, 44; rodeo travels, 64–65, 104 castration techniques, 13 Castro story, 172 cattle drives, 35–39, 46–47 cattle ranching: after rodeoing, 109–10, 113, 130; during caretaking years, 161; chamuscar practice, 2–3, 30–31; economics, 45–48, 51–52, 63, 72–74, 109–10, 142; employee stories, 138–52; fence story, 164; grasses, 2, 3, 42, 111; hacienda selfsu fficiency, 10–14, 21; inventions story, 110–11; move to Santana, 42, 43––44; roping work, 27–28; roundup stories, 57–58, 175; Salinas acreage, 8–10; Spanish heritage, xv, 6, 10–11; World War II period, 103 Cerrito Prieto, 33–34 Championship Rodeo, 64 chamuscar practice, 2–3, 30–31 Chapman, Art, 103 charity ropings, 116–20 Charles Ranch, 109 Chicago rodeo, 65 Chilton, Gertrude, 49 cistern, 113, 124 clothing, rodeo performers, 81 Colborn, Everett, 103 Las Conchas, 33–34, 167 constable job, 135–36, 169 contrabando smuggling, 22–23 Coquat, Bob, 121, 122–23, 124, 128, 179 Coquat, Polly, 121, 122–23, 179 Coronado, Angel, 18 corrals, mesquite, 11 Cotulla, 173–74 Cowboys Turtle Association, 53–54, 80, 86–89f Crenshaw, John, 146 criollo, defined, 5 Crosby, Bob, 94–95 cuarteron, defined, 5 cuero, 14 dancing, 128 Day, Clara, 123 Day, Tommy, 123 deer: fence story, 162; hunting stories, 23, 24–26, 166, 177–78; roping story, 178; Webb County generally, 1 dehorning story, 164 Del Rio race, 75–77 Denhardt, Robert Moorman, 77 deputy sheriff job, 137–38 Día de San Juan, 32 dirt sales, 166 La Docha, 33 Doc Middleton (Hutton), 15 Las Dos Hermanas, 34 Draughon’s Practical Business College , 20 Index 189 Dublin, Texas, 103 dust devils, 37 East, Tom, 62, 63–64, 66–67, 72–74, 107–09 education. See schools electricity, 113, 114 El Moto (horse), 74–75 elopement story, 165–66 Encinal: charity work, 123–24; constable job, 135–36, 169; merchants, 29, 130, 171–73; Salinas houses, 113, 124 Ender, Elma Salinas, 18 England, 93–94 falcete, 13–14 Falfurrias, Texas, 54–55 family trees, 8, 9 farming: of R. Flores, 128–29, 132, 133–34; of C. Salinas, 20, 29, 43; Webb County generally, 1–2 fences, 11, 12, 13–14, 33, 44–45, 162, 164 fighting, 66–68, 83 Finley, Alicia, 45 Finley, Amanda, 45 Finley, Amy, 45 Finley, Ana Marie, 45 Finley, Joe, Jr., 45 Finley, Joe, Sr., 44–45 Finley, Mary, 45 Finley, Mary Jo, 45 fire story, 165 Flores, Juan...