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Word: gringoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet Chihuahua and Sonora." The time is a few years after the Civil War, and the hero is a young gun-toter named Martin Brady, who has expatriated himself to Mexico for a good reason: at 14 he killed a man back in Texas. Brady is more Mexican than gringo now, a hard, quiet, mercenary gunman who works for a Mexican landowner. But he has a hankering for Texas and can never forget where home is. He makes it home for good, finally, as a Texas Ranger, but not until after enough Indian fighting and other assorted acts of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down by the Rio Grande | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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