Info re another book from: The Longoria Family of La Grulla & South Texas website: Border Bandits details Texas Rangers cruelty San Antonio Express-News | 9 January 2004 | Jan Jarboe Russell Posted on January 9, 2005 at 3:58:30 PM EST by Racehorse For 90 years, most Mexican Americans in South Texas have known the truth behind the myth — that during a reign of terror in 1915, Texas Rangers randomly lynched, shot and killed Tejanos, whose farms, ranches and land were coveted by Anglo land speculators. Kirby Warnock, an Anglo baby boomer and Dallas filmmaker who grew up in Texas watching The Lone Ranger, also grew up on alternative stories about the Rangers from his grandfather, Roland Warnock, a cowboy who worked on Guadalupe Ranch near Edinburg in the mid-1900s. On Sept. 30, 1915, Roland Warnok witnessed the murder of two unarmed Tejanos — 68-year-old Jesus Bazan and his son-in-law Antonio Longoria — by Rangers in a Model T Ford. Bazan and Longoria were shot in the back, off their horses, as the Rangers passed by. Warnock found their bodies two days later and buried them where they remain today, on a lonely stretch of road 18 miles north of Edinburg. Kirby Warnock told his grandfathers story — and the larger untold story of South Texas — in a documentary called Border Bandits, which returns Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Westlakes Shopping Center on Southwest Loop 410. The film was here in November, sold out two theaters at the Alamo Draft-house and is back for an encore. For more information, visit drafthouse .
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