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9781585445929
cloth : alk. paper
1585445924
cloth : alk. paper
(OCoLC)77116416
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Thompson, Jerry D.
Cortina :
Defending the Mexican Name in Texas /
Jerry Thompson.
College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2007.
332 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.
Did this border caudillo fight to defend the rights, honor, and legal claims of the Mexicans of South Texas, as he claimed? Or was his a quest for personal vengeance against the newcomers who had married into his family, threatened his mother's land holdings, and insulted his honor?
20080116.
Cortina, Juan N
Juan Nepomuceno
1824-1894.
Outlaws
Mexican-American Border Region
Biography.
Revolutionaries
Mexican-American Border Region
Biography.
Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex)
History
19th century.
Mexican Americans
Civil rights
Texas
History
19th century.
Mexican-American Border Region
History
19th century.
Mexican-American Border Region
History, Military
19th century.
Texas
History
Civil War, 1861-1865.
Texas
History
1846-1950.
Texas
Ethnic relations
History
19th century.
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