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TOPICS: Esquivel Vaqueros Wild West Shows POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   JANUARY 28, 2018 (This is a guest blog courtesy of Lonn Taylor, a historian, and writer who lives in Fort Davis.) On a wintry Sunday morning just before Christmas in 1886, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody treated New Yorkers to an   almuerzo a lo Mexicano,  a Mexican breakfast.   His Wild West show was playing at Madison Square Garden and Cody wanted to honor the troupe of Mexican vaqueros who were part of it and to entertain and educate the New Yorkers who had been flocking to it. The breakfast was served in a temporary annex to the Garden that housed the vaqueros and the menu included chile con carne, chiles rellenos, picadillo , and tortillas . While the vaqueros undoubtedly enjoyed it, the New Yorkers were not appreciative. The   New York Times  reported the next day that the fare resembled something “the prodigal son subsisted on when he was in the hog business.” While there were probably only eight or

TOPICS:  Corpus Christi Caller Dr. William C. Jefferies Duval County Jeffrey POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   JANUARY 21, 2018 Dr. W. C. Jefferies Throughout the nineteenth century, newspapers covering Duval County had a number of correspondents that used pen names. Through the years I have only been able to identify one, until now. With the help of a  family friend and researcher of the correspondent, I have concluded the “Jeffreys,” who covered Duval County for the  Corpus Christi Caller  from April 1887 through January 1888, was Dr. William C.  Jefferies . Incidentally, the other writer that I have identified was John Williamson Moses who wrote under the name of “Sesom”. Dr.  Jefferies , in fact, was one of the first non-Spanish-speaking individuals to come to Duval County. According to Robert R. Webb, the doctor first came to San Diego in 1868. He appears in the census as early as 1870. At the time the 42-year-old South Carolina native was married to Alabama native Tabitha Ann W