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By Americo Paredes

this primary novel written within the Nineteen Thirties through the dean of Mexican-American folklore charts the arriving of age of a tender Mexican American at the Texas-Mexico border opposed to the heritage of guerrilla conflict, banditry, land grabs, abuses by way of the Texas Rangers and the overwhelming pressures to vanish into the yank melting pot.

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