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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: life crossing borders
    sub title: memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate
  name:
    name part: Tafolla, Santiago
    name part: 1837-1911
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Tafolla, Carmen
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Tafolla, Laura
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Tafolla, Fidel L
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: spa
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: In the memoir he began in 1908, Santiago Tafolla recalls finding himself--along with his fellow Mexican Confederate soldiers--terrorized by white Confederates. When the americanos take up arms and threaten to eliminate all the "greasers," Tafolla is forced to desert in order to survive. Born in Santa Fe in 1837, nine years before Mexico lost control of the region following the Mexican-American War, Tafolla chronicles his life during turbulent times. He experienced firsthand the racism prevalent to the time period and was an eyewitness to slavery. He was a veteran of the Texas Indian. Wars and the U.S. Civil War, having served as a bugler for both the northern and southern armies. And he spent the last 35 years of his life as a methodist circuit-riding preacher when most Hispanics were Catholics. The preservation and publication of this memoir is almost as fascinating as the life described within its pages. Edited by Santiago's great-grand-daughters, Carmen Tafolla and Laura Tafolla, it includes sample pages from the original, handwritten manuscript; a transcription of the complete original Spanish memoir; an epilogue describing the significance of his later life; the English translation; and historical photos. Published as part of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project series, A Life Crossing Borders is an invaluable aid to understanding the upheavals of the nineteenth century in North America. In recovering Santiago Tafolla's memoir, scholars and great-granddaughters Carmen and Laura have contributed a remarkable work of inestimable historical and literary value, Tafolla's rich and nuanced memoir details a young Hispano's life in the vortex of U. S. wars of Western expansionism and in the Civil War. Tafolla, who crosses limits and boundaries of language, religion and political allegiance, is a critically important nineteenth century voice. His memoir significantly adds to our knowledge and understanding of Latina/o history and literature; it is …
  note: Santiago Tafolla ; edited by Carmen Tafolla and Laura Tafolla ; English translation by Fidel Tafolla.
  note: Translation of original handwritten, Spanish-language manuscript entitled Memorias de un mexicoamericano en la Confederación; includes Spanish transcription and English translation.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-usu--
    geographic code: n-us-nm
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tafolla, Santiago
      name part: 1837-1911
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Confederate States of America.
      name part: Army
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    genre: Personal narratives, Mexican American
  subject:
    geographic: New Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: 1848-
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Santa Fe (N.M.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Circuit riders
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Ranchers
    geographic: Southwest, New
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Justices of the peace
    topic: Texas
    genre: Biography
  classification: E184.M5 eBook
  related item:
    title info:
      title: A life crossing borders
    name:
      name part: Tafolla, Santiago.
    origin info:
      publisher: Houston, Texas : Arte Publico Press, c2010.
    identifier: (OCoLC)316826045
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication
  identifier: 9781611920369
  identifier: 1611920361
  identifier: 9781558855977
  identifier: 1558855971
  identifier: https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/23215/
  record info:
    record content source: DGITA
    record creation date: 141001
    record identifier: DIGARTEP0034
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng