Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was
virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas
sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a
misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled
immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for
Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and
imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be
forgotten. Even today, in the cantinas along both sides of the Rio
Grande, Mexicans sing the praises of the great "sheriff-killer" in
the ballad which they call "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez."
Americo Paredes tells the story of Cortez, the man and the
legend, in vivid, fascinating detail in "With His Pistol in His
Hand," which also presents a unique study of a ballad in the
making. Deftly woven into the story are interpretations of the
Border country, its history, its people, and their folkways.
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