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New Mexico sleigh ride

by talleloy (Subscribe)

Posted on: Dec 16, 2008 at 11:42 AM MDT

Channel: Holiday

You may not know this but in New Mexico Santa Claus came from the north in a 2 wheeled oxen carreta as shown in picture. Instead of rein deer the more traditional way was donkey or oxen. The cart or carreta was filled with posole, tamales and of course toy carretas for the kids. One major difference was the oxen were never able to fly, they just went real fast to cover all the houses. The oxen eventually became the Texas longhorns.

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