El Coyote, the rebel
By: Luis Perez ; introduction by Lauro Flores
Series: Pioneers of modern U.S. Hispanic literature; Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781558852969
Subjects: Personal narratives; Mexican Americans; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: A soldier at the age of eleven. An honorably discharged veteran at the age of thirteen. A miner, a cotton-picker, a shepherd, and a graduate of Hollywood High. Luis Perez lived an incredible life and then shaped his story into a vividly realized autobiographical novel. El Coyote, the Rebel, originally published in 1947, tells how the toddler Luis, son of an Aztec mother and a French diplomat father, ended up in the care of an uncle who soon drank away most of the boy's inheritance. Having run away from cruel treatment, Luis by chance came to fight with the rebel armies in the 1910 Mexican Revolution, received the nickname of  El Coyote for his cunning, and was wounded in combat. Upon being given a discharge and a twenty-dollar bill, he walked across the border to become an American and the beginning of a new tomorrow.
Notes: "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage"--P. facing t.p.

Originally published : New York : Henry Holt, 1947.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxx).