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Frank Dobie, who encouraged her to begin writing for folklore publications. She soon began traveling throughout Cameron, Starr, and Zapata counties, interviewing residents of the borderlands. She captured the voices of ordinary Mexican Americans seeking to preserve their cultural traditions during a period of tumultuous change. Discovered by scholars among her papers, these historical romances detail turbulent racial conflicts of the Texas-Mexico border.

But they also highlight the focus of her life's work—documenting what she once described as "the beauty of faith, of lore, and of tradition, amidst the sufferings of life. New York: Oxford University Press, Austin: University of Texas Press, Caballero: A Historical Novel.

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Dew on the Thorn. Edited by Sergio Reyna. Kabalen de Bichara, Donna M. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Orozco, Cynthia E. Purdy, Andrea R. Edited by Laurie Champion.