By Orae Dominguez Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló, she preferred the name Madame La Tules, was well known as an expert card dealer. Her fame as the best Monte dealer spread throughout the territories. She was literate, shrewd, and an independent businesswoman who had amassed wealth and power as a Mexican woman. Doña Tules expressed the view of her life and her acquisition of her considerable wealth and property as being "accumulated by my own labor and exertions."   Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló was a very significant and fascinating woman who lived during the Mexican and Euro-American transition in Santa Fe, … Continue reading María Gertrudis Barceló:”Doña Tules”