The Search for Pedro's Story recreates the life experiences of Pedro Péres, a leather jacket soldier in the Spanish colonial army in eighteenth-century Texas. Each chapter begins with a signpost artifact related to one of Pedro's roles--soldier, horseman, explorer, guard, spouse, messenger, and cowboy--and ends with a fictional account of an event in Pedro's life from the findings. The discipline of history usually focuses on heroic deeds and people,...
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