Interview with Cosme Casares Munoz

Creator

Cosme Casares Munoz
Leticia Miroslava Gamboa

Identifier

Oral history 00654

Files

Creation Date

1-1-1987

Description

Cosme Casares Munoz was born in 1915 in McAllen, Texas. He talks about the first schools in McAllen, Los Rinches, Texas Rangers, and Los Indiciosos, why they hung 30 people in Alamo, Texas, laborers, and camps of soldiers in 1919. He tells about "diez y quince" stores and the first cars sold.

Format

Compressed from a .wav format into a .mp3 access format at 128kbps.

Length

00:61:31

Language

Spanish

Notes

Interview conducted in 1987 by Leticia Gamboa. Digital transfer completed on 27 January 2014 from the original analog cassette tape.

Recommended Citation

Rio Grande Valley Oral Histories Collection; Cosme Casares Munoz, 1987. ELIBR-0027. University Library, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX. Accessed via https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/rgvoralhistories/342