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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 Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Joe Babits, Steve Blodgett, Johnny Bush, Charlie Campion, Fletcher Clark, Bill Crain, Chon Davila, David Dee, Don Elam, Kinky Friedman, Gene Gosney, Jack Jacobs, Bo Jangles, Peggy Keener, Marie Laveau, Dennis Locorriere, Rocky Marciano, Claude Morgan, Larry Patton, San Pedro, Charlie Potter, Luke Robinson, Randall Rohne, Ray Sawyer, Jay Thornton, T. Gosney Thornton, Jerry Jeff Walker, Suzie Watson, Hank Williams, Jay Wise, Faron Young.

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