The original handwritten manuscript was 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.
Sam’s young son Jesse talks about a teacher he doesn’t like and tells Sam and Johnny a story entitled “Raspberries”. Conversations between Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark.
Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Bailey Anderson, Don Bowman, Cooder Browne, Johnny Bush, Joe Conway, Steve Fromholz, Rick Galvan, Amelia Garza, Jimmy Harriss, Bob Herrick, Bob Nolan, Johnny Paycheck, Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Rogers, Ernest Tubb, Rick Vasquez, Stevie Vaughn.