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A life crossing borders

memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate

by Santiago Tafolla

2009 244 pages eng

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 Sant…

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