With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero art Handcrafted and detailed with precision

Handcrafted and detailed with precision

Sweeney shows that the cataclysmic events of the 1870s and 1880s stemmed in part from seeds of distrust sown by the American military in 1861 and 1863

Nearly ninety photographs

Palmore’s paintings loom large not only in scale but also in raised consciousness of the “earthlings with whom we share this planet

With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero art Handcrafted and detailed with precisionGregorio 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