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Problem:An early writer of Chicano folk culture and folklore from the Texas-Mexican border. Although Bourke was first and foremost a military man, he became interested in ethnology and anthropology and wrote extensively on these subjects.
Solution:
Brooke was a military man but also a writer of Chicano folk culture and folklore from the Texas-Mexican border.