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Original handwritten manuscript written in Spanish by the Reverend Santiago Tafolla at the age of 71. Tafolla was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico under Mexican rule; traveled widely in the US; and served in the Texas Indian Wars and the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The memoir offers a rare look at 19th century Texas from the Tejano perspective and is the only known memoir of a Mexican American who served in the Civil War. Tafolla's great-granddaughters Carmen and Laura Tafolla transcribed, translated, and edited the memoir, which was ultimately published as A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Civil War Soldier, by Arté Público Press in 2009. Item is fragile; pages 73-76 are illegible in places; written in pencil.

Original handwritten manuscript written in Spanish by the Reverend Santiago Tafolla at the age of 71. Tafolla was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico under Mexican rule; traveled widely in the US; and served in the Texas Indian Wars and the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The memoir offers a rare look at 19th century Texas from the Tejano perspective and is the only known memoir of a Mexican American who served in the Civil War. Tafolla's great-granddaughters Carmen and Laura Tafolla transcribed, translated, and edited the memoir, which was ultimately published as A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Civil War Soldier, by Arté Público Press in 2009. Item is fragile; some pages are illegible in places; written in pencil.

1908 yearbook for Southwest Texas State Normal School.

Cover story on Intergalatic chicken races at Great Worlds's Fair.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Bobby Baker, Marcia Ball, Ronnie Branham, Jacob Brodbeck, Frenchie Burke, Johnny Bush, George Chambers, Carol Cisneros, Billy Cochran, Rick Davis, Jack Deaner, John Donaho, Joe Ely, Barbara Fairchild, Anthony Gap, Butch Heffelfinger, Johnny Hernandez, Clifton Jansky, Jerry Jeff, Dale Keith, Patsy Kline, Brett Kramer, Billy Mata, Augie Meyers, Claude Morgan, Willie Nelson, Harley Puckett, Tex Schofield, Fred Seekatz, Johnny Short, Gayle Smith, John Snyder, Cotton Stout, Dennis Thacker, Bobby Thomas, Casey Tibbs.

Cover story on Elvis Costello

Cover story on Tobacco

Meeting minutes from the Texas State University System Board of Regents.