If lynching was the sanctioned extra-juridical means through which to contain socio-racial difference in the U.S. West (Gonzales-Day), then the institutionalization of law as a category of protection bears it traces. We will study this heuristic proposition and the traces of lynching in "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" (both the corrido, or border ballad, and the movie), the trial documents, the attempted lynching of Cortez, as well as in the various technologies of recordation that have sought to contain the memory of the law on his literal and social body.
It would be useful to review Américo Paredes' "With His Pistol In His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Other items of note include samples of corridos.
Bill for prosecution of Gregorio Cortez
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982), dir. Robert M. Young
Edward James Olmos / Gregorio Cortez
James Gammon / Sheriff Frank Fly
Tom Bower / Boone Choate
Bruce McGill / Reporter Blakely
Brion James / Captain Rogers
Alan Vint / Mike Trimmell
Timothy Scott / Sheriff Morris
Pepe Serna / Romaldo Cortez
Michael McGuire / Sheriff Glover
William Sanderson / Cowboy
Barry Corbin / Abernathy
Jack Kehoe / Prosecutor Pferson
Rosanna DeSoto / Carlota Muñoz
Buddy Vigil / Skin
Zach Porter / Fly's Posse
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