The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation Matted Cards In the 1520s

In the 1520s

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Leon Kroll was born in New York City where he spent many hours as a young man looking at the paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation Matted Cards In the 1520s"Old Pounder," they called him the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito's greatest legacy is measured in lives, not ounces: the scores of Navajo women and children he plucked out of slavery in 1864, the hundreds of exiles he risked everything to feed in 1865 and the thousands of people he helped lead back home in 1868. A remarkable portrait of human resilience, Delgadito's story upends conventional narratives of the West, revealing an