Jess Martineau’s book Colonia Chuichupa Mormon Colony in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico gives first-hand accounts from the colonists of Chuichupa.  It is interesting when you see the same event given from multiple points of view.

I think my favorite parts of the book are where we get a glimpse of Colonies’ life and how closely, at times, it mirrors our own.  We get to see that people are people no matter in what year or situation they were born into.

One amusing example of teens being teens to their parents’ consternation is found when a mother ran to the Bishop horrified that his daughter was sitting on her son’s lap.

Another example is when the teenagers of Chuichupa weren’t allowed to dance the Waltz.  After a party one night, the teens were late in returning home.  As a mother searched, she walked passed the church and heard music softly playing. Entering the church she found a pianist playing by low lantern light while the town’s malefactors (teens) danced the Waltz.

Nelle Spilsbury Hatch also lamented the fact that in Colonia Juarez church leaders limited dances to the Quadrille and other square-type dances. Apparently the leaders thought Waltzing would cause participants to lose all inhibitions and turn a wholesome community dance into a Roman bacchanalia.

This book is full of first hand accounts of Indian raids, desperados, and ferocious wild animal encounters. Colonia Chuichupa Mormon Colony in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico tells the heroic deeds of men, women, and a dog named Bacon all of whom carved out an existence in wilds of the high Sierra Madres in Mexico.

Jess still has approximately 20 books so if you are interest get one soon because they are going fast.  The final costis $50/copy plus $5 shipping.

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