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to be office themMar*on the stage coach.Marmon checked in at the Ex-change Hotel (now La Fonda) and learned the next day from the Indun Agency office that his brother was teaching school at Laguna Pueblo, 50 miles west of Albuquerque. He had only $5 left, however, not enough to pay his stage coach fare from Santa Fc to Albuquerque.* The stage line, however, agreed to accept Marmon's personal belongings, consisting of a $25 suit and a suitcase full of starched shirts, as security’ for the fare payment. These were sent along on the stage held at the Albuquerque until Marmon redeemed by paying his fare.The stage coach, with mon aboard, left Santa Fe one morning and arrived late that afternoon at the Priest Ranch Stage Station, which Mar mon wrote was located about two miles east of Albuquerque. At that time* Albuquerque was a small town centered about present Old Town. Plaza, so the Priest si age station apparently was located near the present downtown business section.The si age could not proceed on to Albuquerque, Marmon wrote, because flood waters had isolated the town. Before entering the town, he had to boat across a 200-yard wide channel about where First St. is today.Upon reaching Albuquerque, Marmon met the postmaster, Melchior Werner, who said he know Marman's brother and that he came in from Laguna about or.ee a month for maiL and supplies. Mr. Werner invited Marmon to slay at his home, and sent a local man on‘ horseback to Laguna to inform Walter that his brother had arrived. Two days laler, Walter arrived totake his brother to Laguna,.* * *guna, pausing to rest ct the old *5 government stage station'at the 1. Hio Puereo. They rode into La- E-guna late that afternoon, and went to Walter’s home in the old Baptist mission,‘‘My brother lived here white he was a teacher for Laguna Pueblo,” Marmon wrote- 'He had one room fixed up where he made his headquarters. This rooni served for bedroom, living room and kitchen. He had no chairs, no bed, nothing but a frying pan and a bake oven , and a fireplace, coffee pot andij some tin plates.“I wanted to know where his bed was, and he said it yrzs in the corner, and 1 asked him if that was all the bed he had. Hetold me that was the wsy theyslept out in this country, on. thefloor/'* * *During his first days at Laguna, Marmon wrote, he was very homesick and would have started back to .Ohio if he had had enough money. He said his brother joshed him and aald he would get use to it,On his third day there, hewent over to the school to watch his brother teach. Most of the students were adults, he svroie, many of them married men with babies on their backs.They only had about one book in the whole school and no pencils,” he added. “They had old logs for benches. There were no windows, jus I holes in tKe wall/'A short while later. Walterwent on a prospecting trip toArizona- and left Robert*, fncharge of the school for threemonths. By tne time Waller returned, Robert could speak the Laguna language even better than his brother.On Nov. 1, 1S72, Robert Map mon was appointed teacher ofa nrw *rhnf»l iuct nrcrnn taA at
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Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Mon, Nov 29, 1954
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