Mario Garcia Salcedo, 24, of San Juan Cosala, drowned early July 30, when he dove into Lake Chapala from his fishing lancha to retrieve an oar that had slipped from its oarlock.
Two decades before the pilgrims dragged ashore at Plymouth Rock, Spanish ranchers and their hired hands pushed herds of cattle, horses and sheep north from Mexico City across the Rio Bravo into the province they dubbed Nuevo Mexico.