Tuba read and liked Nicolasshump's review of "With His Pistol In His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero:

"This is one of the classic precursors of Chicana/o studies, but it stands on its own as an early work of interdisciplinary scholarship on the border, on vernacular culture, as a work of anthropology, and as an revisionist attempt to counter very nega...more This is one of the classic precursors of Chicana/o studies, but it stands on its own as an early work of interdisciplinary scholarship on the border, on vernacular culture, as a work of anthropology, and as an revisionist attempt to counter very negative representations of Mexicans and Mexican Americans especially in Texas by academics like Walter Prescott Webb.(less) "

Tuba read and liked Vtlozano's review of "With His Pistol In His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero:

"In methodical, restrained prose, Paredes marshals forensic evidence for how Gregorio Cortez out-rode the Texas Rangers and passed into legend. Fifty years after publication, “Pistol” is still like watching a masterful expert witness change the mo...more In methodical, restrained prose, Paredes marshals forensic evidence for how Gregorio Cortez out-rode the Texas Rangers and passed into legend. Fifty years after publication, “Pistol” is still like watching a masterful expert witness change the mood in the courtroom where southwestern history is being tried.(less) "