The Tortillas Hollywood Left Off the Cattle Drive
You can leave people out of the movie. You cannot erase the fact that they were there. I grew up watching cowboy movies. After a long day on the trail,
Starr County: Four Hundred Years of Solitude
How an ancient web of families survived empires, borders, and outsiders Starr County survived four hundred years of solitude because nobody there was ever truly alone. The Web Beneath the
Markwayne Mullin – the White man who is Native American
The Trail That Did Not Lead to a Card My family followed a different trail. It began in New Mexico in the 1600s, around Albuquerque and Bernalillo, in a country
27th Division, 102nd Medical Battalion, WWII
What the 102nd Medical Battalion Did The image on the left is my uncle, Armando Barrera, and my father, Manuel Barrera. The newspaper made a mistake; their father’s name was
J T Canales, Investigation of the Texas Rangers 1919
. Not much has changed in the last one hundred years; we still have men in masks terrorizing Latinos, men disappearing, dying before they get to jail or detention. They
Texas Borderland Mystery
The New Mexico Clue The first clue did not look like a clue. It was only a line in an old census, the kind of record most people would pass