https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/ada775bd6d7c834e1f9aa748c6b1b0bc.pdf 0adef8fe0adfa5a012a00f994728602a PDF Text Text ~ ., ' ' ''1 ' ', l '1 ) ") , ") ) ) ) ) ) ) \ EPIMENIO & ADELA (Mascarenas) QUINTANA Jose and Natividad Quintana were loading a covered wagon with all the necessities and valuables they could carry. The remainder they sold or gave away to their friends in Abiquiu, New Mexico, for they were about to start a long trip to the North. It was the year 1900 when Jose and his wife heard about the opportunities developing in the San Juan Valley near the Colorado line. They talked it over and decided to go there. Settling near Rosa, they bought some land and opened a general store and blacksmith shop. At first they were in partnership with Jose's brother-in-law. Later each man owned his own store. By 1910 when Epimenio and his twin sister were born, (the youngest of 11 children) the family was well established at Rosa. Epimenio says "My twin sister died when I was 5 months old and then my mother died when I was one year and three months old. One of our neighbors, Candelaria Valdez, took me to raise as her own. I kept in touch with my father and my brothers and sisters, but Mrs. Valdez was a mother to me. I started to school at Rosa and finished 8th grade at Arboles. When I was old enough, my Dad let me work in the store and taught me some of the blacksmith trade." "In 1929 when I was 19, I got my own sheep. Most of the time I grazed them on Federal Land leased from the Dept. of the Interior on Middle Mesa. The lease cost about $0.13 per head. Most winters the snow was not deep enough and did not last long enough to be a problem, but in 1931 I lost one third of my flock in the deep snow. Prices all went down in the 30's. We got 12 cents per pound for wool and 8 cents a pound for lambs." ) ) ) _) _) .) _) J ...) _) ...) ..J ...) ..J ..J In 1941 when Epimenio was thrashing grain for Manley Hott, he got acquainted with Adela Mascarenas. Adela's father, Celestino Mascarenas had been born in Clayton, New Mexico, later migrating with his parents to Rosa, where he met and married Magdalena Quintana in 1922. They were homesteading on their first farm when Adela was born. "I was born in our cellar on the homestead. That was the first dwelling my parents built on their farm. We lived on that place until I was 4 years old. Then we moved to Silverton where Dad worked in thE~ Treasure Tunnel Mine. I have good memories of those years. It was wonderful to live in Silverton as a child. If you were a dare-devil, which I suppose I was, there were many adventures waiting. I don't know how we survived the railroad pump cars. A bunch of us would sneak down to the rail yards, crawl up on one of the hand operated repair cars and pump it out of town into the mountains. When we were high enough, we coasted back to town. The car wou'ld squeal around the curves nearly turning over and nearly throwing us off. Once into the flat part of town, it gradually slowed down and stopped in the rail yard. Though we did this many times, no one ever stopped us or warned us not to do it again. While in Silverton, I met my future husband for the first time. Epimenio was herding sheep in the high mountains near Pyramid Peak. Since it was only about 28 miles to Silverton over the passes, he decided to come to La Fiesta de los Boregerros. He stayed with relatives near our home and pastured his burro nearby. I decided to ride the burros. I grabbed J J ...) ..) ..J .,,) 135 �their tails and swung my feet up into the hollow of their hind legs just above the knees and rode them all over the place. You tell me why they didn't kick." "I didn't see Epimenio again until we moved back to Rosa. Through the years as I was growing up, I saw him occasionally at dances, but had no friendship with him until I was 18. While we were both working at the Holt's farm, Epimenio began to talk to me. Al first I was not interested in him, but he was nice and I began to think that since we were both interested in cattle and sheep and liked farm life, perhaps we could be happy together. We were married in October, 1941. Epimenio was drafted in 1942. He was sent to Camp Roberts, then to Hawaii and on to the Solomon Islands. The native people were very friendly to Americans, but the Japanese planes and snipers were not so friendly. Epimenio's unit guarded the airfields on Espiritu Santu Island. After 17 months he was sent back to Hawaii and San Francicso for hospitalization. When Epimenio got home, he and his family spent one summer in Aztec before moving back to Rosa where he did farm work until 1960. The Quintanas have 10 children: Nattie, Esther, Baltazar, Epimenio Jr (deceased), Elaine, Bernard, Freddie, Larry, Selina and Jeanette. In 1960 life was rudely interrupted in the San Juan Valley. All the people in Rosa and in the valley above Navajo Dam had to move out to make way for the rising, waters of Navajo Lake. The government gave Epimenio $1,900.00 for the 12 acres he had inherited from his mother. It wasn't enough, but people had to take what they could get. "We moved up on Stollsteimer Creek for one summer until we found this place to buy west of Ignacio. We've been here ever since and are very happy with this place." May, 1978 -- Shelby Smith 136 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Epimenio Quintana and Adela (Mascarenas) Quintana Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978-05 Subject The topic of the resource Quintana, Epimenio; Quintana, Adela (Mascarenas); Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Epimenio Quintana and Adela (Mascarenas) Quintana based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the May, 1978 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Quintana, Epimenio; Quintana, Adela (Mascarenas) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby