Book description
Eusebio Chacón, born in Peñasco, New Mexico, is arguably one of the
most significant and most overlooked figures in New Mexico's cultural
heritage. He earned a law degree from Notre Dame and returned to
practice law in Trinidad, Colorado. He served as a district attorney
for Las Animas County, Colorado, and as a translator for the U. S.
Court of Private Land Claims. In 1898, he began to write and edit for
El Progreso, in which many of his articles exposed the
unjust treatment of Hispanics in Colorado and New Mexico. He was also
New Mexico's first novelist, and took pride in his pioneering efforts
to establish a Nuevomexicano literary tradition.
This collection of Chacón's writings brings together all published
and written materials found, displaying his versatility with samples
of his work as an accomplished orator, translator, essayist,
historian, novelist, and poet.
Francisco A. Lomelí is professor of Spanish and
Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his
earlier books are Defying the Inquisition
in Colonial New Mexico, coedited
with Clark Colahan (UNM Press), and Aztlán: Essays
on the Chicano Homeland, coedited
with Rudolfo Anaya (UNM Press).
A. Gabriel Meléndez is professor of American
Studies at the University of New Mexico. Among his earlier books are
So All Is Not Lost:
The Poetics of Print in
Nuevomexicano Communities, 1834-1958 (UNM
Press) and The Biography of
Casimiro Barela (UNM Press). He is one of the
general series editors for the Pasó por Aquí series.
