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Oral Histories: Abstracts: Barker: Barker Photos Books The following books are recommended for other perspectives on the Mexican revolution. At the time of the Mexican revolution, several photographers in the area were experimenting with the craft and captured the border events in their photographs. Sarber, Mary A. Photographs from the Border: The Otis A. Aultman Collection. El Paso: El Paso Public Library Association, 1977. Samponaro, Frank N., and Paul J. Vanderwood, War Scare on the Rio Grande: Robert Runyon's Photographs of the Border Conflict, 1913-1916 . Austin: Barker Texas History Center with Texas State Historical Association, 1992.
Brenner, Anita. The Wind that Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution 1910-1942. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1943; reprint, 1973. This book has become a classic. When it was released in 1943, it presented the photographic history of the Mexican revolution with 100 pages of text and 184 news photographs with the photographs being re-photographed as necessary by Walker Evans. Compiling a photographic history was innovative at the time, and today it still remains a viable work, capturing the phases of the Mexican revolution from Díaz to Madero and through the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata and Carranza and Obregón. If you can locate a copy of this book, it is still worth reading. Campobello, Nellie. Cartucho - My Mother's Hands. Trans. Doris Meyer and Irene Matthews. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. Nellie Campobello lived in Hidalgo del Parral during the Mexican revolution, and, as an adult in Mexico City, she was a free spirit in a society that expected women to conform to traditional Hispanic-Catholic values. Her writings, first published in 1931, are rapid sketches of the revolution seen through the eyes of a child. She is the only female among the principal writers of the revolution, and the richness of her writing about the events she witnessed is a work of art. Guzmán, Martín Luis. Memoirs of Pancho Villa. Trans. Virginia H. Taylor. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975. This is still the definitive book on Pancho Villa. Working with numerous primary source documents, Guzmán presents the details of Pancho Villa's life up to 1915. Utilizing remembrances by Villa, the book is written in the first-person narrative.
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