A life crossing borders : memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate /

A life crossing borders : memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate /

In the memoir he began in 1908, Santiago Tafolla recalls finding himself--along with his fellow Mexican Confederate soldiers--terrorized by white Confederates. When the americanos take up arms and threaten to eliminate all the "greasers," Tafolla is forced to desert in order to survive. Bo...

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Main Author: Tafolla, Santiago, 1837-1911 (Author)
Other Authors: Tafolla, Carmen, 1951- (Editor), Tafolla, Laura (Editor), Tafolla, Fidel L (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, c2010.
Series:Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication.
Subjects:
Tafolla, Santiago, > 1837-1911.
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Mexican American.
New Mexico > History > 1848- > Biography.
Santa Fe (N.M.) > Biography.
Circuit riders > United States > Biography.
Ranchers > Southwest, New > Biography.
Justices of the peace > Texas > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Digitalia Hispánica
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