Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians by Francisco Patencio Margaret Boynton

Author:Francisco Patencio, Margaret Boynton [Francisco Patencio, Margaret Boynton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws, Rich & Famous, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, Native American Studies, History, United States, 19th Century
ISBN: 9781839743139
Google: FIPUDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2020-03-05T04:23:03+00:00

THE FIRST THRESHING-MACHINE

My brother-in-law was a smart young man. He learned to work with machinery. I liked to follow him along when I was a boy, and see what he did.

Always I wanted to know. When my sister Angela went to do laundry at people’s houses, I went along to help her. I liked to look at all the things the people had in their homes, and see what they were used for. I liked to see how the other people lived, and what they did.

Dan Rockman and Mr. Whitby, an Englishman, lived at the Hot Springs of San Bernardino, now called Highlands. These two men brought the first threshing machine into this country. Every harvest my brother-in-law worked on the thresher machine. I, as a little boy, went along with him. When I grew up, I ran that threshing machine myself.

When the United States surveyors came to this country, the Indians knew all the survey lines. Some of the Indians went with the surveyors. Mules packed the stakes and grub outfits. The stakes were made of Desert Willow, with figures on them.

I remember Jim Waterman, a Pinto Indian. He was always hanging around the White people’s camps. He showed Jim McKinney a gold mine in 29 Palms country. Jim didn’t get gold enough to suit himself, so he moulded 20-dollar gold pieces out of lead, and painted the outside of them with his gold. He had to go to the penitentiary for making money too fast.

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