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

With His Pistol in His Hand : : A Border Ballad and Its Hero / / Américo Paredes.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Paredes, Américo,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1958
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Texas Classics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez
  • PART ONE Gregorio Cortez, the Legend and the Life
  • I: THE COUNTRY
  • II: THE LEGEND
  • III: THE MAN
  • IV: THE HERO'S PROGRESS
  • PART TWO El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, a Ballad of Border Conflict
  • V: THE Corrido ON THE BORDER
  • VI: VARIANTS OF Gregorio Cortez
  • VII: Gregorio Cortez, A STUDY
  • VIII: A LAST WORD
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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