wpalh2-20071304 [Killing of Charlie Bachelor]: a machine
readable transcription. Life Histories from the Folklore
Project, WPA Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940; American
Memory, Library of Congress. Selected and converted. American
Memory, Library of Congress.  Washington, DC, 1994.  Preceding
element provides place and date of transcription only.
1994/03/15 2002/05/16  Ceaser Brook   Frances E. Totty [?]  1365
words.  June 5,1938.  Killing of Charlie Bachelor and other
Incidents.  I was raised in Old Megilla, N.M. There was only one
other white family in the town, we all spoke the Spanish or
rather the tongue of the people in Megilla at the time which was
nothing, but an Indian language mixed with Spanish.  When we
left Megilla we went to Port Seldon fourteen or fifteen miles up
the Rio Grande river from Megilla. While at the Fort we ran the
ferry across the river. John Chisom has brought many a herd
across the ferry at this point. John Chisom was always the worst
dressed man on this crew. He as a ge