Author : Matt Fitzsimons
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143967552X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Book Synopsis The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo by : Matt Fitzsimons
Download or read book The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo written by Matt Fitzsimons and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the staggeringly true story of how the first Navajo silversmiths fed and freed a nation. "Old Pounder," they called him -- the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito's greatest legacy is measured in lives, not ounces: the scores of Navajo women and children he plucked out of slavery in 1864, the hundreds of exiles he risked everything to feed in 1865 and the thousands of people he helped lead back home in 1868. A remarkable portrait of human resilience, Delgadito's story upends conventional narratives of the West, revealing an illicit slave system that began with the Conquistadors and reached its apex under the Union Army. Even as US officials fought to end slavery in the South, they weaponized human trafficking against the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Matt Fitzsimons traces the trajectory of the prisoners of Bosque Redondo who forged a path to freedom.