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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.

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Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Roy Bean, Kenneth Blum, Tee Cee, George Chambers, Emma Chaney, Ray Charles, Lila Cockrell, John Collins, Hondo Crouch, Sam Davis, Jim Dement, Freddy Fender, Kent Finlay, Walt Garrison, Roy Head, Waylon Jennings, Dan Johnson, Donna Kennedy, Davi La, Pat Lalley, Lily Langtry, Danny Levinson, Charlie McBurney, Augie Meyers, Maggie Montgomery, Claude Morgan, Willie Nelson, Bill Price, Douglas Quintet, Bob Ragan, Johnny Rotten, Tammi Wise.

Cover story on Curley Mays