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- Title: Gumersindo Esquer of Sonoyta: A Mexican Jules Verne in the Footsteps of William Hornaday (Essay)
- Author : Journal of the Southwest
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 217 KB
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The native village at Sonoyta, Sonora, was first recorded by Europeans when Father Eusebio Kino visited it in 1698. By 1700, he wrote that this "rancheria ... is the best there is on this coast. It has fertile land, with irrigation ditches for good crops ..., water which runs all the year, good pasture for cattle, and everything necessary for a good settlement" (Kino 1924, 2:255). Kino was proved right. Sonoyta was a good place to live. By the 1920s, Sonoyta was a prospering town, full of busy and optimistic inhabitants, a desert oasis on the Sonoyta River. This was the Sonoyta of the writer, poet, teacher, hunter, and explorer Gumersindo Esquer, one of the most colorful yet least known characters of the northwestern Sonora frontier at that time. He rhapsodized about his little town on the first page of his 1928 novel, Campos de Fuego (Fields of Fire).
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