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product of professional musicians and is purveyed by disc recordings over
the air used by the "Spanish Hour" of Southwestern radio stations. A recent
corrido that earned brief popularity tells of a shooting spree during a San
Antonio festival parade in 1979. Reportedly, the record's first pressing sold
out on the day of its release.
In these conidos from the Big Bend, two methods of composition are seen,
both typical of balladry and folk poetry in general. "El Corrido del Rancho
Jandred-huan" is said to have resulted from communal composition by several
cowboys inspired by a habitual rhymemaker among them. The other two seem
to have been composed each by one person, his identity not specified in the
song. As for the man who wrote about the death of Antonio Casas, however,
his name is remembered in the town where he lived.
El Corrido de Antonio Casas
This story of sudden murder on drunken impulse in a friendly setting oc-
curred in Alpine in 1908 in a bar owned by one "Mocho," a local nickname
for a one-armed person (or with a leg or even a finger missing). Mocho's can-
tina was located in the vicinity of Avenue F and 7th Street, where the Casas
family owned property. The barbershop of Julian Ramfrez now stands on that
corner where the murder is said to have happened. Salom6n Ramos believes
that a stanza is missing from this version, lines suggesting that mere drunken-
ness caused the shooting. He remembers only one line of the missing part:
"Por los tragos que tomaron... ." (Because of the liquor they had drunk
....) At that time the Brewster County Sheriff was J. Allen Walton, and there
were several physicians in Alpine. Juan Gallegos later worked in the 1940s in
the Brewster County Court House for Sheriff Clarence Hord, and in the Fifties
owned an Alpine beer-bar called '"The Bull." He is father of Brewster County
Commissioner Ernest Gallego.
According to Salom6n, Juan Vega is the author of this corrido. A well
educated and cultured man, Juan Vega established the Amor 'Tabajo Uni6n
Club (Love-Work-Unity) in Alpine as a respectable social club for Mexican-
American citizens. Having lost its original purpose, the ATU Club is now a
privately owned bar, and none of Juan Vega's family live in Alpine.
EL CORRIDO DE ANTONIO CASAS
En mil novecientos ocho In nineteen hundred and eight
Antonio Casas muri6, Antonio Casas died
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Collection of popular Texas folklore, including cowboy and gaucho songs, information about boat-making and other folk crafts, religious anecdotes, and other miscellaneous stories of early cowboy life in Texas. The index begins on page 165.
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Abernethy, Francis Edward. Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany, book, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67657/m1/50/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.