Add to ORKGGregorio Cortez y Lira, better known as Gregorio Cortez, stirred Southwest Texas to unprecedented fits of passion during a ten day interval in June, 1901. Within a span of a little more than two days, Gregorio Cortez shot and killed two of Texas’ most popular law enforcement officers. A third man was also killed. The deaths of the men triggered one of the sensational manhunts in the history of Texas lasting ten days. ¹ Many stories and tales have been recounted of Cortez’s deeds and exploits. He has become a legend in Texas folklore. In the cantinas along the Rio Grande Ricer on the Texas-Mexico border, Mexican-Americans glorify his feats in a ballad El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez. Cortez has become a legendary hero in the eyes of many Mexic...
Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a stori...
Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored...
In this paper I sought to understand whether narcocorridos represent an aberration or a continuation...
In 1970 Richard Mertz, a graduate student at Texas A&I researched the events of Gregorio Cortez's li...
THEY CALLED HIM THE “RED ROBBER OF THE RIO GRANDE.... ” Whether this moniker developed from the redd...
Since 1901, journalists, songwriters, storytellers, historians and moviemakers documented the story ...
In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Ll...
Photos, documents and ballad of the 1932 robbery and murder of George Silva, a prosperous twenty-two...
On April 23, 1852, Ramona de la Peña became a widow for the second time when she buried Eusebio Garc...
On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on ...
Robert F. Kennedy fue un defensor de los derechos civiles y de los trabajadores agrícolas. En 1967, ...
The period of Mexican history, and incidentally, Texas history, to which General Manuel de Mier y Te...
Cosme Casares Munoz was born in 1915 in McAllen, Texas. He talks about the first schools in McAllen,...
In May of 1963, a police officer in San Benito, Texas, arrested Antonio Mendoza, a Mexican American,...
As ashes flow along the Rio Bravo Where it spills into the Gulf of Mexico Cenizas se revuelven por l...
Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a stori...
Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored...
In this paper I sought to understand whether narcocorridos represent an aberration or a continuation...
In 1970 Richard Mertz, a graduate student at Texas A&I researched the events of Gregorio Cortez's li...
THEY CALLED HIM THE “RED ROBBER OF THE RIO GRANDE.... ” Whether this moniker developed from the redd...
Since 1901, journalists, songwriters, storytellers, historians and moviemakers documented the story ...
In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Ll...
Photos, documents and ballad of the 1932 robbery and murder of George Silva, a prosperous twenty-two...
On April 23, 1852, Ramona de la Peña became a widow for the second time when she buried Eusebio Garc...
On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on ...
Robert F. Kennedy fue un defensor de los derechos civiles y de los trabajadores agrícolas. En 1967, ...
The period of Mexican history, and incidentally, Texas history, to which General Manuel de Mier y Te...
Cosme Casares Munoz was born in 1915 in McAllen, Texas. He talks about the first schools in McAllen,...
In May of 1963, a police officer in San Benito, Texas, arrested Antonio Mendoza, a Mexican American,...
As ashes flow along the Rio Bravo Where it spills into the Gulf of Mexico Cenizas se revuelven por l...
Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a stori...
Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored...
In this paper I sought to understand whether narcocorridos represent an aberration or a continuation...