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With His Pistol in His Hand is a book about Gregorio Cortez written by Américo Paredes. It was published by the University of Texas Press and first printed in 1958. Cortez was turned into a ballad hero by the Mexican American community after allegedly murdering sheriff W.T. (Brack) Morris and evading law enforcement for a few months. Paredes used materials from historical records of Cortez and his time, ballads that used him as the central figures and folklore to present to his reader an analysis of Gregorio Cortez both as the person and as the mythical hero.

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  • With His Pistol in His Hand is a book about Gregorio Cortez written by Américo Paredes. It was published by the University of Texas Press and first printed in 1958. Cortez was turned into a ballad hero by the Mexican American community after allegedly murdering sheriff W.T. (Brack) Morris and evading law enforcement for a few months. Paredes used materials from historical records of Cortez and his time, ballads that used him as the central figures and folklore to present to his reader an analysis of Gregorio Cortez both as the person and as the mythical hero. The book is 274 pages long with eight chapters, a bibliography section, and an index. (en)
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  • With His Pistol in His Hand is a book about Gregorio Cortez written by Américo Paredes. It was published by the University of Texas Press and first printed in 1958. Cortez was turned into a ballad hero by the Mexican American community after allegedly murdering sheriff W.T. (Brack) Morris and evading law enforcement for a few months. Paredes used materials from historical records of Cortez and his time, ballads that used him as the central figures and folklore to present to his reader an analysis of Gregorio Cortez both as the person and as the mythical hero. (en)
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  • With His Pistol in His Hand (en)
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