Most of us are familiar with the saying, “Ay Chihuahua!” which is the Spanish equivalent of “Yikes!” The entire saying is, “Ay Chihuahua, cuantos Apaches, cuantos Indios sin huaraches!” Which loosely translated, means, “Yikes! How many Apache Indians are there without sandals!” The saying refers to the time when legendary Apache raiders like Geronimo, Cochise, Juh and Victorio, plundered the northern states of Mexico. Apaches wore calf-high deerskin moccasins, as opposed to the sandals of the locals, thus the play on words and the rhyming (Apaches-huaraches). It has been almost a century since those raids but it is quite amazing that this saying is still in use today.
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May 2016
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- Grande Dames of the West
- A Life Cut Short
- Tombstone Trivia
- The Original Rhinestone Cowgirl
- Western Events for May 2016
- On the Rock with the Apache Kid
- Jim Masterson and a Stick of Dynamite
- No “Thanks” for the Chinese
- Death Comes for the Wicked
- On the Trail of Father Pierre De Smet
- The Man Who Shot Bill Tilghman
- Fine Wine at the O.K. Corral
- The Ordeal of Larcena Pennington
- Was Jesse James fighting to bring back the Confederacy?
- Did most Texas Rangers not wear badges until after the turn of the 20th century?
- The True Odyssey of Hugh Glass
- Snake Oil
- A Nazi Western?
- Wheelbarrows Started The Fortune
- John Wayne’s First Movie Six-gun
- One-Armed Bandits
- There Must be Something in the Water…
- Fashion Faux Pas, Arizona-Style
- Tragic Powwow
- Sinful Chocolate
- Dangerous Dan
- Was John Wesley Hardin as deadly and fast to shoot as folks claim?
- The First Naval Vessel on the Colorado River
- Border Bandidos
- Beyond the Horizon with Author Jefferson Glass
- America’s Longest War
- No Revenge for Frank Hamer
- The Yosemite Legend of Joseph Walker
- What’s in a Name?
- Army Corps of Topographical Engineers
- A Freighter Transcends the Plains
- What does Mark Twain mean by “Josh-lights” in Roughing It?
- Cowboys & Millionaires
- Gold-Hungry Ghosts in Bannack
- “Go False Man”
- The Outlaw and the Lady
- The Vendetta Ride
- Lights! Camera! Action!
- A House Divided
- Merlin Heinze
- The Fickle Gila River
- Alagazam!!!!!
- War Hero on the Campaign Trail
- He Lived With Big Nose Kate
- Double Crossin’ Duelist
- Erastus “Deaf” Smith
- The Origins of “Buffalo Soldier”
- Accusing the Deadly
- The Reservation Trading Post Era
- Jane Sanford Left a Legacy, Too
- Did Paulita Maxwell bear Billy the Kid’s child?
- Match that Lit the Civil War
- Arizona Women of the Pleasant Valley War
- Whitman’s Chocolates are 174 Years Old
- Scene Stealers
- America’s Youngest Explorer Sees the World
- Let ’er Buck
- The Legend of La Tules
- An Extraordinary Life
- A Hero’s Tale
- Galeyville Outlaw Eating Etiquette
- The Loss of a National Treasure
- A Wild Time in Historic Deadwood, South Dakota
- Why do Westerns show mainly male horses?
- Rubble on Route 66
- Stopping Sam Bass
- That’s Got to Hurt!
- The “Granddaddy” of Silver Strikes
- Between Glacier and Yellowstone, Experience Two National Treasures
- ¡Ay Chihuahua!
- What Started the Pleasant Valley War?
- Tragedy on the Butterfield Line
- “Aunt Clara” Brown, Angel of the Rockies
- A Legendary Horseback Duel
- The Death of Jim Talbot
- Did the 7th Cavalry Carry Sabers at the Battle of the Little Big Horn?