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Tables of Contents for With His Pistol in His Hand
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
PART ONE: Gregorio Cortez, the Legend and the Life
The Country
7
26
Nuevo Santander
7
2
The Rio Grande people
9
6
Mier, the Alamo, and Goliad
15
8
The Texas Rangers
23
10
The Legend
33
22
How they sing El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez
33
1
How Gregorio Cortez came to be in the county of El Carmen
34
3
Roman's horse trade and what came of it
37
5
How Gregorio Cortez rode the little sorrel mare all of five hundred miles
42
5
How El Teco sold Gregorio Cortez for a morral full of silver dollars
47
3
How Gregorio Cortez went to prison, but not for killing the sheriffs
50
2
How President Lincoln's daughter freed Gregorio Cortez, and how he was poisoned and died
52
3
The Man
55
53
A likable young man
55
3
The sheriff is interpreted to death
58
7
The long walk
65
2
The Battle of Belmont
67
5
The long ride
72
5
The capture
77
6
Aftermath
83
4
The battle of the courts
87
7
``Through thick and thin,''
94
3
The pardon
97
3
The last days
100
4
Epilogue
104
4
The Hero's Progress
108
21
Theme and variations
108
6
Fact and fancy
114
5
Cortez as a folk hero
119
10
PART TWO: El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, a Ballad of Border Conflict
The Corrido on the Border
129
22
Before the corrido
129
3
The corrido century
132
6
The earliest Border corridos
138
4
Ballads borrowed from Greater Mexico
142
1
Border outlaw corridos
143
3
The Borderer against the fuereno
146
1
The Border Mexican against the rinches
147
2
The corrido of border conflict as a dominant form
149
2
Variants of Gregorio Cortez
151
24
Gregorio Cortez, a Study
175
66
The variants
175
6
Narrative style
181
6
Change and development
187
19
Versification, rhythm, and structure
206
5
The use of the imperfect and of syllable-supplying devices
211
5
Corrido imagery in Gregorio Cortez
216
3
The corrido language
219
5
Conventions which the Border corrido has borrowed from Greater Mexico
224
3
Conventions which have been developed in El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez
227
14
A Last Word
241
10
Bibliography
251
8
Index
259