urn:taro:utexas.cah.00532 A Guide to the Robert Mendoza Collection The Center for American History
Austin, Texas
November 2006 November 2006Encoded in XMetal 3 by Evan Hocker according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. Finding aid written inEnglish. Descriptive Summary Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Mendoza, Robert Robert Mendoza Collection 1997-2006 1 in. Materials are in English. Collection of fifteen original newspaper articles from Laredos, all researched and written by Robert Mendoza between 1997 and 2006. Scope and Contents

Collection of fifteen original newspaper articles from Laredos, all researched and written by Robert Mendoza.

Topics include the murder of Mexican General Lucio Blanco (1922), the Prohibition-era bootlegger murder of Captain Charles Stevens (1929), a bibliography of Catarino Garza and Captain John Gregory Bourke, the Plan de San Diego (1915-1916), the death of Jesse Moseley (1916), biography of Allen Walker, and the Exchange Hotel and railroads in Laredo. Also, pieces on Colonel Patricio G. Mendoza (1915), Emiliano Zapata and Jesus Guajardo, George "Gavo" Ochoa's murder of Henry G. Whittenburg (1949), and an overview of writers' portrayals of Laredo from 1828 to 1979.

 Preferred Citation

Robert Mendoza Collection, 1997-2006, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Robert Mendoza Collection 2.325/B101a Original newspaper articles from Laredos, 1997-2006