An 1881 kidnapping is a slice of New Mexico folklore preserved in verse

'The Ballad of Plácida Romero' recounts one woman's harrowing and heroic fight for survival. Her kidnapping in 1881 by a party led by Nana, chief of the Warm Springs Apaches, is a slice of New Mexico folklore preserved in verse.

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