A Guide to the Robert Mendoza Collection


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Mendoza, Robert
	Title	Robert Mendoza Collection
	Dates:	1997-2006
	Abstract	Collection of fifteen original newspaper articles from Laredos, all researched and written by Robert Mendoza between 1997 and 2006.
	Extent	1 in.
	Language	Materials are in English.
	Repository	Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

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.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

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

Detailed Description of the Collection

Robert Mendoza Collection

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2.325/B101a

Original newspaper articles from Laredos, 1997-2006