All of grassroots historian Fillman Childs Bell’s work interviewing Hia-Ced O’odham came decades after her richest sources, her own father and mother, had died. Her mother, Martha Garcia Childs, was born Hia-Ced O’odham and lived among them even after marrying outside the tribe. Her father, Thomas Childs Jr., had been a living authority, a link to scores of O’odham families and their confidant. Although not born into the tribe, he had walked the trails with them, had slept and eaten in their camps and villages, and had seen the changes in their himdag, their lifeways. He had been a lifelong participant and observer, and he was willing to talk, for he knew the value of their history. He was afraid of no one and free to speak his mind. His knowledge was both expansive, like their trails covering hundreds of miles to water holes, and detailed, like who lived with whom and what people ate for breakfast. Other opportunities to ask Tom had been missed. William T. Hornaday visited the Pinacate region in December of 1907. When he needed guides for the trip, he hired Jeff Milton and Charlie Foster. Tom Childs could have done the job and told the expedition much about the water holes and game to be found. Hornaday did meet a friend of Tom’s, one Reuben “Rube” Daniels, who lived at Quitobaquito, and the expedition passed near the Ten Mile Ranch as it rode homeward from Ajo to Gila Bend. Childs reports that he did meet Hornaday in Ajo,1 but we can imagine that Hornaday was unimpressed with the local cowman and eager to return home to New York, for he had a zoo to run and a book to write. However, one of his partners on the trip, John Phillips, did take a photo of the ranch on November 29, 1907, proving that they were there, and Godfrey Sykes includes the Ten Mile Ranch on his hand-drawn map of the expedition’s route.2

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找人倾听：托马斯·柴尔兹给理查德·范·法肯伯格和亨利·F·多宾斯的信，1944-1950

所有草根历史学家菲尔曼·柴尔德斯·贝尔 (Fillman Childs Bell) 采访 Hia-Ced O'odham 的工作都是在她最富有的消息来源——她自己的父亲和母亲去世后的几十年里完成的。她的母亲玛莎·加西亚·柴尔兹 (Martha Garcia Childs) 出生于希亚-塞德·奥奥德姆 (Hia-Ced O'odham)，即使在与部落外结婚后也住在他们中间。她的父亲小托马斯·柴尔兹 (Thomas Childs Jr.) 是一位活生生的权威，是与数十个 O'odham 家庭及其心腹的纽带。虽然他不是部落的出生，但他和他们一起走过小径，在他们的营地和村庄里睡觉和吃饭，看到了他们的生活和生活方式的变化。他是一个终生的参与者和观察者，他愿意谈论，因为他知道他们的历史价值。他不怕任何人，可以自由地说出自己的想法。他的知识既广博，就像他们的足迹覆盖数百英里到水坑，又详细，比如谁和谁住在一起，早餐吃了什么。其他询问汤姆的机会已经错过了。威廉 T. 霍纳迪于 1907 年 12 月访问了皮纳卡特地区。当他需要导游指导时，他聘请了杰夫米尔顿和查理福斯特。汤姆·柴尔兹本可以完成这项工作，并告诉探险队很多关于要发现的水坑和游戏的信息。Hornaday 确实遇到了 Tom 的一个朋友，一个住在基多巴基多的 Reuben “Rube” Daniels，探险队在从 Ajo 骑马回家的途中经过了十英里牧场附近到 Gila Bend。Childs 报告说他确实在 Ajo 遇到了 Hornaday，1 但我们可以想象，Hornaday 对当地的牛仔不感兴趣，渴望回到纽约的家，因为他有一个动物园要经营，一本书要写。然而，他的旅行伙伴之一约翰菲利普斯确实在 1907 年 11 月 29 日拍下了牧场的照片，