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Portrait of Fidel Tafolla

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.

Cover story on Larry Franklin.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Dale Bolin, Don Bowman, Cooder Browne, John Conlee, Dale Dawson, Michael Debakey, Bob Dylan, Johnny Gimble, Alex Harvey, Robert Hinkle, Ruben James, Waylon Jennings, Bill Klise, Botts Lane, Mazz Manion, Elizabeth McLlhaney, Augie Meyers, Pat Molak, George Morin, Willie Nelson, Rick Oberlies, Willie Nelson Picnic, Leroy Preston, Jerry Retzloff, Clay Stewart, Ernest Tubb, Skip Tumbleson, Hank Williams.

Cover story on Doug Sahm, Heyoka, Toto

Cover story on Christmas

Prepared for the City of Johnson City with assistance from the National Park Service and the Public History Program/History Department Southwest Texas State University.

1999 yearbook for Southwest Texas State University.