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Prologue
Espirito: walked by great father river, El Rio Urique & found gold
Don Carlos = store owner, son = Ojos Puros (nicknamed: blue eyes)
Bernado Garcio = desperate for money, drove natives out
Mine = La Lluvia de Oro (translated to: Rain of Gold)
1910 = meteor strike
President = Porfirio Diaz
Revolution of 1910
Chapter 2:
-Rained for 14 days and rivers rushed to the Rio Urique six miles below -Lupe in love with Colonel Maytorene; who calls her querida; Maria, Carlota & Sophia = sisters
-Don Manuel�s daughter, Rose-Mary, knocked Lupe while walking to school. -Cuca�s first day of school too; Lupe recognized Scott, an engineer engaged to Maria�s best friend, Carmen. Gachupines = Spaniards.
Senora Munoz = teacher. Senora Munoz (Katherine)= wife of mine manager who�s daughter is Katie Jones. Sisters = Uva, Manuelita, and Cuca. Lupe�s friends with them. Jimmy is Lupe�s classmate who had a white father that abandoned them.
-Katie Jones lives in SF at Nob Hill, 10 yrs old, 2nd year at La Lluvia de Oro school.
-Rose Mary Chavez: youngest daughter of Don Manuel (accountant of mine), has largest house, with tile. Proud and conceited of whom she is. Talks shit about Lupe in front of the class.
-Lupe Gomez (Guadalupe Gomez Camargo):age 6, Carlota�s sister. Father is Don Victor, a carpenter who went down to lowlands looking for work. Mother is Dona Guadalupe.
-Manuel Maytorena, Colonel: Lupe�s truelove, going to be gone for a month in search of gold. He asks Lupe to watch over Socorro who�s going to have his child. He controlled 35 mules each with 2-60lb gold bar. In war against Villa.
-two weeks after Maytorena left, Lupe wanted to see him and packed peaches and tortilla w/ goat�s cheese along with her bro�s dog.
-La Barranca del Cobre canyon: Lupe climbed up it in Northwest Mexico and some parts run deeper than Grand Canyon, Arizona.
-Lupe prays to God for help of her �truelove� in name of Virgin Mary and Lady of Guadalupe.
-Victoriano: Lupe�s brother, found gold near waterfall. Don Benito was with Victor when Lupe saw them.
-Don Benito: half Tarahumara Indian.
Ch 6 � Have to retype it up� anyone know how to use photoshop?
la Liebre and his men came to the plaza to stay throwing people out of their homes and terrorizing the town taking anything they wanted. La Liebre also took Lydia for his woman and threatened to hang her father, the mayor if they interfiered
Feeling frustrated that her husband had not made it back from his journey, Soccorro screamed yelling �you fool� to her husband out of anger that he didn�t take them to Europe but instead tried to save Mexico first.
Lupe took her Colonel�s jacket that Soccorro had thrown out and found a twisted pine tree to bury the suit into in memory of him
Vicotiano regretted going back to the ramada to get their lunch because he could have prevented Don Benito from using all the explosives for gold.
As Lupe and Victoriano was getting ready to bury the suit, her eyes glistened by the site of the fawn that she saw whose eyes reminded her of Colonel
She became inseparable with the deer taking it everywhere except school
The Kids at school began tocall Lupe �the deer girl�
Senor Jones sent his family to US permanently (His girl Katie Jones was Lupe�s classmate)
Senor Munoz asked Lupe for a favor secretly to bring her her mother�s famous goat cheese tortillas in the morning.
Lupe noticed that Manuelita also brought Senora Munos food (sweetbreads).
The reason for her asking for food is because she wasn�t getting paid anymore by Senor Jones after Senora Jones left for the US (SF) since he was under no obligation.
But the towns people got mad at Don Manuel(mayor) for not informing them.
The Towns decided to take turns to invite Senora Munoz(teacher) to dinner every night and continue pennies each week to compensate for her loss wages.
But after the teacher caught on to what the community was doing, she refused but got convicted eventually.
2 days later Senor Jones acted as if she hated the townspeople and shut down the school. But the people moved her into town once again behind Dona Manza�s Bakery.
One evening Don Tiburcio came to visist the family in the ramada dressed up bringing a box of chocolates for the whole family. That never had chocolate before
Chocolate was a great luxury for their family and they were amazed by the beautiful candy wrap.
Don Tiburcio was 30 years old and had an eye for Sophia
That night he asked Sophia�s mother for her hand in marriage.
They were not sure about the proposal because Don Tiburcio had never beer a woman�s man. They were afraid that he only wanted to marry her to take care of his mother.
Here is the notes from chapter 7
-Espinoza's family moved out of La Lluvia to relatives in Los Angelos
-Espinoza worked at the crushing plant for 10 years
-family lost half of ramada, troubles with money
-Senor Jones, La Liebre and two gunmen approached Victoriano, one gunmen threw him against a rock
-The men accused Victoriano of stealing and beat him
-They then dragged him off to hang him
-Lupe ran home to tell her mother they were hanging Vic
-Dona Guadalupes parents were killed and then she met her father who shot a soldier who was going to kill her
-Dona grabbed her fathers gun and went to the marketplace where they were going to hang Vic
-El Barracho woke up and started berating La Liebre, also many people started coming to see the hanging
-La Libre shot El Barracho, people started to get upset because El Barracho was very popular
-Dona faked like she was giving Vic a final blessing and started cutting the rope
-Just as she finally cut the rope, she handed Vic the gun and he started to run, a soldier named Jack Rabbit realized it was an escape and rushed forward with his gun drawn
-Victoriano got away and the soldiers came back to town and arrested Dona and the mayor
-As they were about to hang them the villagers rushed in and broke up the hanging
-Senor Jones led the soldiers out of the village and everyone rejoiced and started singing
Here is Chapter 8
-Juan Salvador Villasenor Castro, Don Pio's thirty seventh grandson, Jaun is 11 years old
-Jaun yelled to the foremen that soldiers were coming and then the foremen ran off scared
-Juan and his family had been on the road for weeks heading north to El Paso
-Juan lied about the soldiers and went to steal the foremens corn
-Luisa was Juan's oldest sister at 18, she has a 3 month old son
-Emilia was Juan's other sister at 16
-Cara De Nopal, the foremen, had shot children before for stealing corn
-They got away with the corn and camped alongside a small river outside of San Francisco Del Rincon
-Juan used old cow droppings to make a fire
-They swept the ground for scorpions and went to bed
-Juan woke up in the middle of the night thinking their house was on fire and people were stealing their livestock-Juan was a lively kid, constantly getting in trouble and his mother would say that he was full of the devil, but his energy actually gave his mother a reason to go on
-Luisa's new husband had deserted them, his name was Epitacio
-At the outskirts of Leon, Guanajuanto they saw a few men on horseback chasing and shooting some men
-One man ran towards them and Luisa recognized him as Epitacio and ran after him
-After pummeling Epitacio, Luisa forgave him and the soldiers on horses turned and rode off
-A horsemen rode up to take their burrow and cart but Juan and Luisa stood their ground and then the man asked if they knew Jose Villasenor which Dona replied that he was her son, the man spoke kindly of Jose and let them go, the mans name was General Felipe Kelly-In Leon, the bodies were piled up all over the street
-There was no wood for a fire and they talked of heading home
-They killed there burro to feed everyone and Jaun was very sad because he had him since he was a little boy, his mother consoled him and they went to sleep
Chapter 9:
- Juan and his family waited along the railroad tracks with many families from all over the Republic of Mexico on their way North to the US
- Powerful boys were full blooded Tarascan Indians from the State of Michoacan
- Domingo Juan's brother, 5 years older than him was closest to Juan-fastest and strongest in the region- Disappeared two months before they left- raced for 20 kilo sack of peanuts
- Juan and the boys he met played Villa and Zapata (heroes of the Revolution), Dorados del Norte (the finest horseman on earth) and General Obregon led by Colonel Castro (against Villa and Zapata)- Juan's cousin on mother's side, Great Uncle Augustin's 5th son- Juan is Villasenor and Castro blood
- In the last year the war had started to hit Juan's family in Los Altos de Jalisco (mountains) - Jose, Juan's oldest brother had managed to keep their mountains free- like Don Pio and his Rurales had kept the mountains free from Bandits years before
- Families climbed into cattle cars for long ride North
- Juan and 5 other boys including Eduardo and Cucho, made a bet to stay along the tracks the longest- Toreando, bullfighting with the train o Eduardo and Juan were left behind- Eduardo had family there o Train went North from city of Leon toward Aguascal. Zacat. and Gomez where it stopped the night and went on to Chihuahua and the Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso Texas
- Juan walked until he found his family outside of Torreon near Gomez Palacio, family was put off train for army
- Francisco Villa, commander in chief the northern division had to get 30 thousand men south for reinforcement
- Fierro, the executioner had taken 4 thousand of Villa's men and attacked Leon, Silao, Irapuato, Salamanca, Celaya, Queretaro, San Juan del Rio and Tula- destroyed Obregon and was waiting for Villa to recapture Mexico city
- Inocenta became Emilia's eyes and she Inocenta's mother since Lucha had abandoned them
- They camped along a water hole north of Torreon- had Villista money, but in Villa territory, no money except Villa's accepted- Juan found food in horse manure
- One more month before they found a train to Chihuahua and the Ciudad Juarez
- Epitacio, 19 years old and six months older than Luisa- two years ago went to US with brothers- Joselito, Epitacio and Luisa's son
- Cost 10 cents/adult and 5 cents/child for Mexicans to cross the river to the US (unheard fortune)
- Luisa and Epitacio left for US
- Devil's Wind-Sandstorm hit and the wind howled across the basin of El Paso-wind lasted for over four days- suddenly quit, caused mother to be blind
- Soles of feet are mirrors to the entire body
- Juan found his mother begging and didn't recognize herm she was so filthy o Juan and his family had lost all honor and were people without a name
Chapter 10
-Juan Salvador raced with his brother Domingo along with pet bull, Chivo. Juan woke up and remembered his mom begging. Blind sister Emilia hugs him. He feels they�ll die. He wants to go to the hills for firewood.
-Juan�s father went to the mountains to die after their ranch was destroyed.
-Jose: Juan�s brother, only 18, protector of mountain.
-Villa�s army was fighting west of Ciudad Juarez in the canyons along the Rio Grande.
-Juan went past many hills to find firewood and dug at it until his fingers bleed and went numb, thinking of his grandfather Don Pio. He�s unable to carry the wood back and gets upset at God. He was going against everything taught at Holy Catholic Church.
-Juan decided to carry less back and while he walked, he heard gun shots of the same side of the Rio Grande, and Ciudad Juarez was leaping in flames.
CHAPTER 11
-People who remained in La Llunia de Oro were so isolated that they reverted to Indian ways and were constantly talking about brujas, espanos, and evil spirits.
-Lupe was turning 11.
-Rose-Mary thought Lupe had seen the devil.
-They think a large creature entered the canyon only to be someone carring a large load on their back covered with an Indian blanket.
-They think he is an American going to reopen the mines.
-When the man came closer, they realize it was Their (Lupe�s) father, Don Victor.
-He brought back a lot of different types of material from Guadalajara and from other parts of the world.
-Her father said that she has to let her deer free.
-Lupe got mad and told her father that he left them and that he cant tell her what to do.
-Lupe�s father was so heartbroken.
CHAPTER 12
-Lupe is still mad at her father. She has been avoiding him ever since her dad wanted to take her deer away from her.
-Don Victor is going to town which would take about a week to get there and back with supplies.
-Lupe�s mother forced her to hug her father good bye.
-Leter that night, they lit candles and their mother led them in prayer, praying that their father, Carlota and Don Tiburcio would have a safe trip and ask God that Socorro would find her family.
-Lupe went outside to her deer and said that her deer was a gift of God and that no one would take the deer away from her.
-Her mother talk to Lupe and suggested that she should also let the deer go before mating season is over.
-Lupe felt so confused and troubled that her mother could love her husband again after hearing all the bad things that was mentioned before such as his drinking and gambling and that he left them.
-The next morning, she took her deer to the canyon and let it go. She was so heartbroken because she didn�t even have the chance to say good bye.
-One day after their work is done, Lupe and Manuelita met two Indian girls named paloma and Cruz. They began a little school of their own, meeting up with each other every other day after work.
-Lupe�s father and others came back from their journey.
-Don Tiburico was shot because of the bandits and was dying.
CHAPTER 13
-The bandits killed Don Tiburcio, taken their gold, raped Paloma and two other Indian girls and killed all of them.
-Lupe and others had found gold.
-They are going to be very careful with this gold because of what the bandit did in the past.
-Don victor got sick from his journey because of the rainy season.
-Ojos Puros said that gold is evil and must get rid of it.
-Lupe�s mother said to her that once she grows older, she will realize that life is bigger than it is.
-Lupe�s mother has a feeling in her heart that Sophia is not dead even though the ship went down.
-Lupe had a terrible pain in her stomach feeling that she wanted to throw up. Then blood started to roll down her legs. She thought she was dying but in reality, she was getting her first period. She was becoming a woman.
Took three days for Lupe and family to scrape blood from Sophias house.
The three bandits that Don Tiburcio killed drenched the whole house with blood.
Bandits killed Don Tiburcio and took their gold and raped Paloma and two other Indian girls
Lupe started to clean the fire place and remembered Tiburcio telling her that when he died to clean the fire place.
They found a foot long metal box full of gold.
Sophia decided to leave teh canyon.
Sophias mother Dona Guadalupe was afraid for her daughter but wouldn't join her until after the rains.
Dona Guadalupe, Lupe, Victoriano, Esabel and Maria found tons of gold buried in the plaza but couldn't get it processed fast enough before the rains.
Victoriano came up with an idea to process the gold faster with bull horns.
The final process step was to burn the gold into tiny balls that weighed 5 grams each.
They hid the gold in the potted plants infront of the house so that if the bandits came back they wouldn't find it.
They worked so much that they lacked food and gold wasn't the problem.
Lupe's mouth watered at the aroma of meat cooking when she followed the smell, her pet deer was hanging from a tree, this wanted to make her vomit
La Gente feasted on her deer.
Sophias ship went down in storm, their father Don Victor told them this after he traveled a weeks worth trip in only three days.
He began to run a fever and became unconcious.
Lupe's mother did not believe Sophia was dead.
Ojos Puros told Dona Guadalupe that the gold was evil and was the one that caused the death.
Dona Guadalupe stopped Ojos Puros and the chanting Indians and commanded them to leave.
Four days later Don Victor started to regain strength.
He explained to Dona Maza and her two sons where and how to cross the river.
The only ones left in the canyon were Lupe's family and the Indians.
It was time to leave the canyon and Dona Guadalupe wanted to take something that reminded her of her home: the lillies.
Lupe cried at the sight of leaving her beautiful home.
Late afternoon they came to the cliffs called Gateway Del Diablo
Lupe got a stomach pain and wasn't able to keep up. Blood started running down her legs and she fell to the ground.
She thought she was dying but her older sister told her that she was only becoming a woman.
Lupe felt good and warm later on laying with her mother next to the river. she reamt of her new life that was to come and knew her youth was gone
(This is the part before chapter 14)
Epitacio and Juan walked down Douglas St. in Arizona.
They�d been working at Copper Queen Mining Co. for over a month and they just got paid.
Epitacio got drunk and lost both they�re paychecks.
Juan changed his name to Juan Cruz to get a second job at night, he was going on 13 years old.
Tomas, 17, told Juan about a plan to steel a sack of copper ore and said they�d make $6.
Juan only made $1 for an 8-hour shift
They stole the ore once, but the second time 16-armed men caught them and they were sent to Tombstone Arizona.
Juan compared prisoners to wolves that have come to rape sheep.
Juan is from Los Altos de Jalisco
Shooting broke out and Juan escaped on his birthday Aug. 18, 1916
They caught him, beat him and dragged him on the back of a horse to Arizona State Penitentiary of Florence Arizona.
A Mexican man from Sonora came and talked to Juan and told him how his son had killed a Texas Ranger and said he�d give Juan�s mom $200 if Juan takes the blame. The man then raised it to $500 in gold and Juan agreed. He was found guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In prison he met a Mexican cook from Guadalajara who took Juan under his wing. He was in jail for killing 2 men in Brisbee Arizona.
The prisoners volunteer at a camp in Safford AZ near Turkey Flat. There he met 2 Yaqui Indians who were in prison for eating an army mule. They helped him escape by "turning to stone."
Juan saw his mother at church and found out his blind sister Emilia had died.
Juan took on the name of his grandfather Pio Castro and went to work in Copper Queen Mining Co. in Montana.
There he met Duel who set up gambling in a whorehouse in Butte owned by a woman named Katherine.
In a fight Juan hit a man with a #22 cuestick and saved a girl named Lily. He really liked Katherine and Lily.
1922 Juan was 19 but looked 25
CHAPTER 14
Juan left Montana and went to Los Angeles by train on x-mas to visit his mom in Corona.
The cab driver was from New Jersey and Juan saw orange and lemon orchards on the sides of the road. Juan gave the cab driver $20 for a $15 trip.
Juan carried a .38 snub-nose under his belt.
Juan sees his sister Luisa and her kids and he finds out that people named Lucha and Tomas have a lot of the money he�s been sending his mother.
Luisa�s children Jose and Pedro were helping Juan in the yard and they talked about family: Juan�s brother Domingo was blue eyed like his father and his grandfather Don Pio fought alongside Benito Juarez and Jose the great who defended them from the revolution for over 4 yrs.
The boys didn�t believe the stores about their ancestors and this makes Juan mad.
Juan went to a restaurant and ordered ham and eggs (15 cents) and coffee (5 cents)
The cook came out and kicked Juan out.
Juan spoke to him in Greek but he still got kicked out because he�s Mexican.
Juan threw a dollar at him and said keep the change.
Juan went in a pool hall and played cards. He won $30 but before he could leave with it a Filipino man (who was with an Italian man) cut the right side of his chin, along the jawbone all the way to his left earlobe. Juan tried to shoot them but he collapsed on the floor in a pool of his own blood.
Lupe
N. San Diego
Working fields in imperial valley
Quit school in santa ana as perveted teacher
Moon = lady of univese
La lasta picked tomatoes
Goes with victoriano & corlota to dance in Carlsbad (carlos malo) (across from Juan�s Poolhall)
Mark = Angilo student
Juan
Pool hall in Carlsbad Archie Freeman (owner) deputy sheriff
Charge 5%
Hans, German Restaurant owner)
Juan is taken by lupe
Pepino(cucumber) = local jokster
Went to dance hall, can�t approach lupe out of fear/shame
Goes to Fresno to search for his two �killers�
Al cappola = liquor maker
Lears to make liquor and buys green dodge convertible for $795 cash
CH 19
In Santa Ana, Lope, Carlota, Victoriano: First family meeting w/o parents, decide to start supporting parents.
The children find joy serving their parents.
Victoriano learns how to drive.
Lupe returns to the library on the weekends. Lupe runs into Mark.
Mark has one year of college left. He will work for his uncle's architectural office.
Mark wants to get engaged, he also offers a job for Lupe as a bookkeeper.
The family bought a black model-T truck
Anglo salesmen know that the Mexican people will not buy anything with out all the women and children there.
Lupe tries to teach her self to drive. In the process destroys a fence, a flower bed, and a rocking chair. Salvador saw the whole thing, and helps out Lupe.
Salvador can not read or write very well. He was born at the mountains of Jalisco.
Salvador's mother went to school tell she was 15, she learned Spanish and French, she
was born in Mexico City. During the time with the war with France.
Don Pio est. A town that became abandoned after the gold mine closed down.
Salvador confesses his love to Lupe.
Lupe compares Salvador to her Colonel.
Lupe dreams for education for her children, not for herself.
Salvador wants Lupe to meet his mother.
Don Victor and Salvador talk about moving to Mexico and buying an abandon gold mine.
Lupe's family likes Salvador.
Salvador lies about being a bootlegger and said he moves fertilizer. Lupe's brothers ask if
He has any work for them and he say yes, "another lie"
It is estimated that $500 will be needed for a gold mine.
Salvador bribes Mr. Whitehead w/ a gallon of whisky if he hires the men to move fertilizer for a week.
Salvador checks on Epitacio's progress with the whisky production. They are almost
Busted by a Sheriff while transporting a truck load of whisky. It was Archie,
Archie wants 5 of the 10 barrels and Epitacio as a scrape goat. He gets all
10 barrels and Salvador's truck, Epitacio "Salvador's brother-in-law" does not
go to prison.
While Salvador is gone, Lupe spends a lot of time with mark. She loves Mark's education
But she feels closer to Salvador.
Kenny gives Salvador a new truck, and Salvador makes back the 10 barrels.
Luisa "Salvador's sister" tells that their mother wants to go to Chee-a-caca "the end of
The World" "Chicago"
Father Ryan asks for whisky, Salvador says his friend will drop off some later in the week.
Lupe's mother tells her that it is Salvador that she truly loves, not Mark.
Ch20
Dona Margarita tells a joke to a statue of the Virgin Mary, and then demands that the statue bring back here son Domingo by the next full moon or she will go to Chicago to get him.
The family gets to Hamelt to find out the canneries had closed down and the farmers are going to be drying apricots this year. Only half of the women laborers will be needed.
Lupe is allergic to the apricots. Lupe almost dies, and dreams of being rich w/ Salvador.
Lupe is visited by Salvador who gives her another driving lesson, in his moon "a car"
Salvador asks Lupe to marry him, she accepts.
Lupe has her first kiss, and it is with Salvador.
Salvador tells his mother that he and Lupe are going to get married.
Salvador�s mother tells him that it is war tell the proposal is formalized.
Rumors spread that Salvador might be a bootlegger, Lupe does not believe that Salvador
Would be involved with such a horrible thing.
Salvador travels to a whorehouse in Pasadena to talk to Liza about a wedding ring.
He sells whisky retail and makes more money then he ever had while he is at Pasadena.
When Salvador gets back to Corona he finds his mother packed ready to leave for
Chicago the next day.
Luisa wants Salvador to stop their mother, he refuses and Dona Margarita tells the story
Of when she went to Guadalajara to get Jose released from prison.
Alejo, Jesus, and Mateo, all Luisa�s big brothers that died in the war.
Dona Margarita has an enemy of her husband help her get her son out of prison.
After the story Luisa regains her faith in her mother and the trip to Chicago.
Jose is released only to be shot down by rangers Albuquerque.
Right before Dona leaves Domingo shows up with an American woman named Nellie.
Nellie is four and half months pregnant.
Domingo had been searching for his family for years, he thought they were all dead after
He saw their village destroyed. He was in debt-labor to an American company.
It took him four years to pay off his debt.
Domingo�s father broke down and drank himself to death when he found his sons
missing
Domingo gets hit in his face by Salvador when, Domingo flips out at the news of his
father
Dona makes Salvador apologize for striking Domingo.
The chapter ends with the united family embracing each other.
