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Editore: Brand: Texas Western Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0874041953ISBN 13: 9780874041958
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie, in Vaquero of the Brush Country, called Juan Nepomuceno Cortina "the most striking, the most powerful, the most insolent, and the most daring as well as the most elusive Mexican bandit, not even excepting Pancho Villa, that ever wet his horses in the muddy water of the Rio Bravo." Juan Cortina and the Texas Mexico Frontier, 1859-1877 is the story of an illiterate Brownsville ranchero who rose to become a rugged and fearless frontier "caudillo" and governor of Tamaulipas. Jerry Thompson has compiled the first schorlarly work on Cortina in 40 years. Using nine of Cortina's pronunciamentos," Thompson sees his subject as more than a "social bandit," someone who simply reacted to the evils of a racist society that suppressed the Mexican-Texans socially, economically and politically. Thompson says, "He shot the Brownsville marshal, ambushed Texas Rangers, captured the U.S. mail, defeated the Matamoros militia, battled the U.S. army, harassed the Confederate Army, ambushed French Imperialists, attacked Mexican liberals, and fought anyone who dared get in his way." He shows Cortina to have been among the most important political and military figures on the border during much of the 19th century, a folk-hero to many Tejanos and Mexicanos, a man whose disputed legacy remains an integral part of the history of both Texas and Mexico.
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Editore: Brand: Texas Western Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0874042186ISBN 13: 9780874042184
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Published for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art by the University of Texas Press, 1966
ISBN 10: 0883600250ISBN 13: 9780883600252
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Texas Western Pr, 1990
ISBN 10: 0874042070ISBN 13: 9780874042078
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Editore: Brand: Texas Western Pr, 1983
ISBN 10: 0874040701ISBN 13: 9780874040708
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Texas Western Pr, 1994
ISBN 10: 0874042305ISBN 13: 9780874042306
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Texas Western Press, 1969
ISBN 10: 0874040221ISBN 13: 9780874040227
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Texas Western Pr, 1984
ISBN 10: 0874042097ISBN 13: 9780874042092
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Texas Western Pr, 1992
ISBN 10: 0874042232ISBN 13: 9780874042238
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Texas Western Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0874040353ISBN 13: 9780874040357
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.