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With His Pistol in His Hand : A Border Ballad and Its Hero / Américo Paredes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Texas ClassicsPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1958Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292748033
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.22 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ7297.A1 C63 1971eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez -- PART ONE Gregorio Cortez, the Legend and the Life -- I: THE COUNTRY -- II: THE LEGEND -- III: THE MAN -- IV: THE HERO'S PROGRESS -- PART TWO El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, a Ballad of Border Conflict -- V: THE Corrido ON THE BORDER -- VI: VARIANTS OF Gregorio Cortez -- VII: Gregorio Cortez, A STUDY -- VIII: A LAST WORD -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be forgotten. Even today, in the cantinas along both sides of the Rio Grande, Mexicans sing the praises of the great "sheriff-killer" in the ballad which they call "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez." Américo Paredes tells the story of Cortez, the man and the legend, in vivid, fascinating detail in "With His Pistol in His Hand," which also presents a unique study of a ballad in the making. Deftly woven into the story are interpretations of the Border country, its history, its people, and their folkways.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez -- PART ONE Gregorio Cortez, the Legend and the Life -- I: THE COUNTRY -- II: THE LEGEND -- III: THE MAN -- IV: THE HERO'S PROGRESS -- PART TWO El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, a Ballad of Border Conflict -- V: THE Corrido ON THE BORDER -- VI: VARIANTS OF Gregorio Cortez -- VII: Gregorio Cortez, A STUDY -- VIII: A LAST WORD -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be forgotten. Even today, in the cantinas along both sides of the Rio Grande, Mexicans sing the praises of the great "sheriff-killer" in the ballad which they call "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez." Américo Paredes tells the story of Cortez, the man and the legend, in vivid, fascinating detail in "With His Pistol in His Hand," which also presents a unique study of a ballad in the making. Deftly woven into the story are interpretations of the Border country, its history, its people, and their folkways.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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