Albert Pike, an American, who passed through the Southwest in 1831, presented his view of a dance in New Mexico. His description suggests the negative stereotypes held by Americans: On the evening after my arrival in the village, I went to a - fandango. I saw the men and women dancing waltzes, and drinking whiskey together. . . . It is a strange sight—a Spanish fandango. Well dressed women—-"(they call them ladies)—harlots, priests, thieves, half-breed Indians—all spinning round together in the waltz. Here a filthy ragged fellow with a half shirt, a pair of leather breeches, and long, dirty woolen stockings, and Apache moccasins, was hanging" and whirling round with the pretty wife of; Pedro Vigil; and there, the priest was dancing with La Altegracia, who paid her husband a regular sum to keep out of the way, and so lived with an...