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"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero (Texas Classics) (2nd Edition) by Americo Paredes Hardcover, 275 Pages, Published 1958 ISBN-10: 0-292-70128-4 / 0292701284 ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70128-1 / 9780292701281 Gregorio 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 on |