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59 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 26 cm.
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English
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A brief fictional recounting of legendary epidemics that struck the American Southwest -- the smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the influenza epidemic during World War I -- which ravaged many rural communities throughout the West. Includes author's notes about the characters.
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38 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"Recounts Ponciano's run-in with Vicente Silva and his bandits, who history confirms murdered, stole, and rustled cattle throughout the 1880s. It's the story of a farmer outwitting Silva in a folktale that shapes our understanding of the cultures of northern New Mexico"--
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