Word: muleback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Longhorns is Pancho Dobie's ninth book. Coronado's Children, though published in the Southwest, was a Literary Guild selection (1931) and he was called off a panther hunt to quaff Manhattan literary tea. In 1932-33, on a Guggenheim grant, he traveled 2,000 miles on muleback in Mexico, emerged with material for Tongues of the Monte, rich legendary dope on the lost Tayopa Mine (Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver). For The Longhorns he searched through thousands of pamphlets, talked to hundreds of oldtimers. Said an old trail driver of Frank Dobie: "He speaks our language...
...just enough Spanish to get along in his work. ... A typical American sales representative will breeze into the Bogotá branch of the National City Bank and ask for an interpreter to go around and talk to some Colombian businessmen for him; your German will ride two days on muleback to sell a dozen packages of razor blades. The American in a Latin country tends to insulate himself from contact with the people of the country; the social customs seem to him absurd, and he makes little effort to understand them. He is not interested, and usually is not backward...