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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 Amazing Brother Bob; ad for Lone Star Texas Music Specials, Luckenbach, on back.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Lynn Barclay, Toby Beau, Phil Bepko, Walter Brennan, Cooder Brown, Hank Cochran, Hondo Crouch, Johnny Duncan, Joe Ely, Freddy Fender, Dillon Ferrero, Kinky Friedman, Gary Gray, Stephen Allen Griffiths, Bob Harrington, Emmylou Harris, Rainey Haynes, Roy Head, George Jay, Waylon Jennings, Sylvia Leal, Bubba Littrell, Darrell McCall, Augie Meyers, Maggie Montgomery, Cathy Morgan, Mama Morrison, Willie Nelson, Austin Notes, Curtis Potter, Ray Price, Jerry Retzloff, Darrell Royal, Doug Sahm, H. Allen Smith, Darrell Staedtler, Gary Stewart, Barry Sullivan, Hank Thompson, Frank X. Tolbert, Jerry Jeff Walker, Hal John Wimberly, Charlie Wood.

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