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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historyfacpub Part of the History Commons Seefeldt, Douglas, "Oñate’s Foot: Histories, Landscapes, and Contested Memories in the Southwest" (2005). Faculty Publications, Department of History. 25. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historyfacpub/25 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the History, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, Department of History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. Uni- versity of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London, 2005, pages 169-209. Copyright © 2005 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Used by permission. University of Virginia Press home page: http://www.upress.virginia.edu/ This book’s web page: http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/seefeldt.html Histories, Landscapes, and Contested Memories in the Southwest Douglas Seefeldt a-half-year-oldbronze equestrian statue was vandalized at a visitor's center in Alcalde, New Mexico. While graffiti is presumably the most common form of damage inflicted upon public art, in this act the perpetrators worked without spray paint or markers, skillfully re- moving the right foot from the rider with a power grinder.