"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero by Am Paredes

"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero

Texas Classics

Am Paredes

276 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history music poetry dark tense medium-paced
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Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled i...

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