Word: armijo
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...time. The easy-rambling narrative overtakes and passes historical figure after figure, never stays long with any: Indian Pope, the King Philip of the Southwest; Uncle Dick Wootton, who traveled 5,000 miles in unmapped, hostile country; James Ohio Pattie, who preferred adventurous hardships to riches and domestic bliss; Armijo, sheep-thief who became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego...