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Outside the bunkhouse, the Rev. Rudy Hernandez unlimbered his marimba and began to waft La Paloma into the evening air. One by one the men strolled out to listen, and Hernandez' assistant got ready the tracts. The Cottonpatch Crusade was under way in Pecos, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Cottonpatch Crusade | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...average of $35 a week. This year the Baptist General Convention of Texas decided to do something about their souls as well as their bodies. With a team of 13 Latin American Baptists, marimba-playing Preacher Hernandez checked into Pecos' Lone Star Motel for a week-long Cottonpatch Crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Cottonpatch Crusade | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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