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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 Dolly Parton.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Bobby Baker, Jim Barnett, Johnny Bush, Vikki Carr, David Allan Coe, Patsy Coleman, Joe Freeman Coliseum, Tom Conner, Lisa Donnelly, Joe Ely, Freddy Fender, Bob Field, Myron Floren, Harry Freeman, Lalo Gonzalez, Terry Hale, Butch Hancock, Charlie Harris, Pedro Infante, Toni Ingraham, Marlene James, Kris Kristofferson, Darrell McCall, Augie Meyers, John Monfrey, Willie Nelson, Curtis Potter, Doug Sahm, Buddy Spicher, George Strait, Jerry Waddel, Porter Wagoner, Morris Washington.

Cover story on Ram Ayala (Taco Land) in memoriam