Issue No. 101: October 2014
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; e r0J11Ca oe Nuevo Mexico ~ Published since 1976 - The Official Publication of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico C6' October 2014 Issue Nultlber 101 Carleen (Crisp) Lazzell, PhD April 7, 1940-January 15, 2015 By Michael Stevenson Carleen Lazzell. the editor of La we never lacked for anything we really northwest Albuquerque. Cronies de Nuevo Mexico and a long-time needed." This epitomized her approach to While doing her own academic work board member of the Historical Society of life and also shows her understandins of and workin~ as an editor, Carleen raised New Mexico. died in her home town of what New Mexico ranchers went through and saw to the education of her and Rue's Clayton, New Mexico. on January 15,2015. in tough times. She always loved ranch two daughters, Ruleen and Renee. Ruleen This is her last issue of La Cronies. an issue life and was proud to say that her father and Renee also enriched Carleen's life with that she almost had ready for publication rode in the Clayton Fourth of July parade seven ~randchildren and 17 ~reat- and was still workin~ on not lon~ before every year from when he was a teenager ~randchildren. In recent years, Carleen she left us . This epitomized her courage. until his death at 86 (for more on her insisted that Ruleen's two daughters, Claire dedication and spunatness in continuing father. see Issue No. 61, April 2004, of La and Sophie, attend the Society's on while she stru~~led with a very difficult Ctotiice de Nuevo Mexico). conferences when they could, with her illness that sapped her strength. Even Never forgetting where she came hope that this would endow them with a many of us who knew her well were not from, Carleen branched out from Union long-term interest in New Mexico history. fully aware of her illness until the end, and County after hi~h school and went to In the 1980s Carleen be~an a Ions those of us who did know the seriousness UNM. She married "the love of her life," association with John Conron. a well- of it were sworn to secrecy, as she did not Rue Lazzell, in 1959. Rue, who died in known Santa Fe architect and want anyone to feel sorry for her. 2008, was trained as an architect and was a preservation advocate and a member of Carleen's early life was spent with her general contractor for many years in New the board and sometime president of the family on ranches in Union County near Mexico. Rue received the Historical Historical Society of New Mexico. In 1984, Clayton. Her parents, Ira Vincent and Society's 1. Bradford Prince Award for John, as Editor of New Mexico Irene Christian Crisp, were both from Historic Preservation in 2004 for the work Architecture maqazine , asked Carleen to homesteading Union County families and he and his company did in renovating the be his Associate Editor, a role she filled for were Ions involved in farming and historic Eklund Hotel in Clayton, an award many years with this renowned maqezlne. ranching. Carleen described this life and that Carleen was just as proud of as was John had started producing La Cronica de Carleen (Crisp) Lezzeli. PhD her early years in an article,"Home on the Rue. Nuevo Mexico in 1976 and was its editor (J940- 2015) Ran~e: Growtnq Up on a Ranch in Union Carleen herself was always interested until his death in 2005. Along the way he format of La Cronies. According to County, New Mexico, 1939-1950 ," in the in historic buildinss and their architecture ~ot Carleen to help him with La Cronies. Carleen, John had started usinq this format book Sunshine and Shadows in New and over the years she completed her B. A. and she also joined the board of the with the first issues so that it would stand Mexico's Past, The Statehood Period. 1912 Degree from UNM and then an M.A. with a Historical Society in 1998. She was first out in readers' bookcases. Even after to 2012. edited by Richard Melzer. specialty in the early architecture of New listed as the Associate Editor of La Ctonice John's passtnc. Carleen kept this tradition, M Carleen relates in this article, she Mexico. In 1996 she received her Ph. D. in the November 1998 issue, but had likely and critics were usually told that if they was about four years old when her parents from UNM in American Studies (she been doing much of the editorial and didn't like it they could edit La Cronies bought a quarter-section (160 acres) always said it was in "Architectu ra l production work well before that time. themselves. "about a mile south of Perico Creek," History," which was close enouqh. with her Carleen not only did a lot of the work, As Editor, Carleen expanded and which they always called "the place over dissertation bein~ on the courthouses of but she managed to keep La Cronies issues improved La Cronice. doing her best, on the creek." Ranch life in those days was New Mexico). Her love of historic coming out for several years despite John despite sometimes recalcitrant hard for everyone, but Carleen says that "it architecture also led her to write and Conran's sometimes betnq at odds with his contributors, to keep it on a four issues per might appear we were poor, but that publish in 2007, with Melissa Payne, the colleaques on the SOCiety's board, with year basis. She saw to it that each issue would be far from the truth. Although we book Historic AIbuquerque--An Illustrated Carleen generally in the middle. One of had at least one substantive historical lacked electricity, indoor plumbtnq, a History. She also delighted in her own old the issues John had with the board was article and that contributors could take telephone and other modern amenities. house on Rio Grande Boulevard in with the somewhat unusual 11 x 17 trifold co nt in ued on page 5 II~ ••• The Kiowa Tribe and Inter-Tribal Relations in the Southwest 1780-1880 By Stephen Zimmer Introduction then south a~ain , while their le~ends Mexicans with Pueblos from Santo Occasionally their efforts were successful Kiowa tradition places the earliest retained only the last of these migrations" Domingo in the party, and they packed such as in 1871 when an Army patrol homeland of the tribe in present day (Kroeber 1939: 80). Nevertheless, once the supplies of flour and bread to trade with apprehended twenty-one Isleta Indians western Montana. M early as the 1740s Kiowas settled on the southern Plains, they the Kiowas and Comanches for robes and who were driving a large herd of stolen members of the tribe traveled southward en~a~ed in trade with the Rio Grande horses. All were mounted on mules and cattle acquired from the Plains tribes (Amy to the Spanish Province of New Mexico in Pueblos either in their villaqes or on the either wore serapes or headdresses and 1871: 388). search of horses and trade. In their travels open plains where the Kiowas roamed. beads. Six of their party were scattered The Comanchero trade continued up they encountered aboriqinal tribes most of The Pueblos traded a~ricultural over the prairie in search of tradtnc into the time that the Kiowas and whom resented the intrusion. Whereas the products such as flour, corn, and beans partners but were thus far unsuccessful in Comanches were placed on a reservation Kiowas found the Pueblo tribes to be (Monahan 1965: 77-79) for which the finding any because all of the Plains tribes in southwestern Indian Territory in 1867 amenable tradinv partners, they were Kiowas bartered buffalo robes, dried meat. were away hunting in the north (US Senate 68.. One of the last visits made by Mexican prevented from free access to the province horses, and mules in return (Ward 1864: 1854: 34). and Pueblo traders to the Plains was in the by the Ute and Jicarilla Apache tribes. 193). Mexican lower classes also joined in By the 1860s New Mexican traders winter of 1872-73. They traded biscocho Consequently, the Kiowas fouzht them in the trade, sometimes allied with the offered the Kiowas desirable American or Pueblo bread and eacle feathers to a addition to the Navajos who also Pueblos and sometimes on ventures of goods such as cloth, sugar, coffee, trinkets, ~roup of Kiowas camped on the Washita attempted to block their access to the their own. These Mexican and Pueblo guns, and ammunition in addition to River near Rainy Mountain. The Kiowas region. traders were commonly called traditional items. On the other hand, the liked the Pueblo bread and were known to Pro~ress ively the Kiowas moved their "Comancheros" because of the great Kiowas had a new trade item, cattle, which give "a pony for a small bag of it" (Mooney villases southward durlnc the 18th amount of trade they carried on with the they stole from settlements on the Texas 1898:336). Century and were identified by the Comanches as well as the Kiowas. frontier (Monahan 1965: 229-30) . The Kiowa business ethics in dealing with Spanish as beins south of the Arkansas Cheyennes, and Arapahos. Comancheros developed well defined the Pueblo and Mexican traders reflected River by 1780-1790. Along with their allies. Some lJroups from New Mexico went trails that oriqinated on the upper the manner in which they reqarded them. the Comanches, the Kiowas developed a east onto the Plains to specifically hunt tributaries of the Red and Brazos Rivers Although trade was beneficial to the possessive attitude toward the Southern buffalo but also carried trade items along (Kenner 1969: 181) along which they drove Kiowas, the felt themselves superior to the Plains buffalo range and fought the Utes, because it was dangerous to hunt on cattle traded from the Kiowas and Comancheros and were notorious for Jicarilla Apaches, Navajos, and Mescalero Kiowa range without betng capable of Comanches to New Mexico.