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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 Sonny Baermann's painting of Willie Nelson's Guitar Trigger.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Joe Anthony, Fred Astaire, Manfred Beck, Tony Booth, Frenchie Burke, Larry Burruss, George Chambers, Cesar Chavez, Dina Covington, Hondo Crouch, Chon Davila, Bobby Flores, Robert Gomez, Waylon Jennings, Darrell McCall, Augie Meyers, Pete Montemayor, Pearl Montoya, Keith Moon, Barbara Murullo, Don Pedro, Sunny Planto, Jim Redd, Jon Robbins, Woody Roberts, Johnny Solo, Ronnie Spillman, Ted Stecker, Encore Talent, Chuck Tate, Wayne Turner, Jim Wharton, Vivian Rosales Wharton, Patrick Whitmore.

Cover story on Kay Maynard (HerbÕs Hats)