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With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero

With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero

Paredes, Américo

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Series: Texas Classics

Literary FiguresGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 0292701284
ISBN13: 9780292701281
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jan 1 1958
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be forgotten. Even today, in the cantinas along both sides of the Rio Grande, Mexicans sing the praises of the great sheriff-killer in the ballad which they call El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez.

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