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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 Kinky Friedman, David Allen Coe.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: David Allan, Willis Allen, Malcolm Bell, Allan Coe, David Allan Coe, David Crosby, Hondo Crouch, Mario Dehoyos, Wick Fowler, Jimmy Fuller, Dennis Glaser, Tompall Glaser, George Hays, Stan Kenton, Bob Marsh, Dave Mason, Tom Mathis, Augie Meyer, Robert Miller, Joker Moon, Willie Nelson, Raymond Russell Park, Freddy Parker, San Pedro, Willis Allen Ramsey, Terry Reid, Ron Singletary, H. Allen Smith, Rod Stewart, Romy Vela, Wild Waldo, Leslie West, Buzz Williams, Will Wright.

A publication for the faculty and staff of Southwest Texas State University