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Works Cited

Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 3rd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1988

Alonzo, Armando C. Tejano Legacy, Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998

Colley, Betty and Monday, Jane. Voices from the Wild Horse Desert : the vaquero families of the King and Kenedy Ranches. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997.

De León, Arnaldo. The Tejano Community, 1836-1900. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1997.

Dobie, Frank. “The Mexican Vaquero of the Texas Border”. The Southwestern Political and Social Quarterly, 8.1, June, 1927

Ellis, L. Tuffly, Terry G. Jordan and James R, Buchanan. Cultural and Historical Maps of Texas: From the “Atlas of Texas” Austin: University of Texas, 1976

Everett, Dick, “The Origin of Cow Country,” Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, Vol 17 (1926-1928).

Freedmen, Russel. In the Days of the Vaqueros: America’s First True Cowboys. New York: Clarion Books, 2001

Gard, Wayne. “Retracing the Chisholm Trail,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly.(1956/57) 60 (1): 53-68

In Their Own Words, Warriors and Pioneers, ed T.J. Stiles, New York: the Berkley Publication Group, 1996.

Jordan, Terry G. The Origin of the Anglo-American Cattle Ranching in Central Texas: a Documentation of the Diffusion from the Lower South. Reprinted from “Economic Geography, Vol. 45 No. 1 (Jan 1969) pp. 63-67

McDowell, John Holmes. “The Corrido of Greater Mexico as Discourse, Music, and Event.” “And Other Neighborly Names”: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore. ed. Richard Bauman and Roger D. Abrahams. Berkley: University of California Press, 1981. 59.

Paredes, Américo. A Texas Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1976. 25-26, 53-55.

Paredes, Américo. “Conventions which the Border corrido has borrowed from Greater Mexico.” “With his Pistol in His Hand”: a Border Ballad and its Hero. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958. 28-32.

Peña, Manuel H. Folksong and Social Change: Two Corridos as Interpretive Sources. Aztlán, 1982: 14.

Posada, Jose Guadalupe. Monografia : las obras de Jose Guadalupe Posada, grabador mexicano, con introduccion de Diego Rivera. eds., Frances Toor, Paul O'Higgins, Blas Vanegas Arroyo. Mexico, D.F. : Ediciones Toledo : Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes ; Aguascalientes, Ags. : Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes, 1991.

 

Audio and Video Citations

“Corrido de General Cortina” Caferino González (75), Valle hermoso, Tamaulipas Mexico, August, 1954. Collected by Américo Paredes. (F111 – 7)


“Corrido de Kiansis” Singer, date, and place not identified. Collected by Américo Paredes. (F92-9)


“Corrido de Kiansis" Nicanor Torres (92), Brownsville, TX, August, 1954. Collected by Américo Paredes. (F103-1)


“Corrido de Kiansis” Gregorio paredes Cisneros (68), Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. August , 1954. Collected by Américo Paredes. (F108-2)


“Corrido de Kiansis” José Gómez and Pancho Delgado, date and place not given. Collected by Norman L. “Brownie” McNeil (F187-1)


“Corrido de Kiansis” Rit and Joe Caballeros, San Antonio, TX, 1936. Collected by John A. Lomax. (F313-7)


“Corrido de Kiansis” Richie Dobie and unidentified second voice, Cotulla, TX 1936. Collected by John A. Lomax. (F313-11; not #10)

"Los quinientos novillos," Los Palomares de Ojinaga, video rec. by Chris Strachwitz and Jaime Nicolopulos, Presidio, TX, November 2, 1997.