The ballad of Gregorio Cortez The story starts out with a headline stating that fifty years after Texas had won its independence, Mexicans and Anglo Texans still lived in tension and fear. As an example was the account of Gregorio Cortez a story told in two different versions, Cortez’s side and the Texas Ranger’s side. A writer Bill Blanchly interviews captain Rogers about the incident where he tells them that the Texas rangers are the ones after him trying to bring him into the authorities. In the next scene you see Gregorio Cortez being chased by the rangers and switching from one horse to another after they tire. Then the reporter asks Boone Choate who had accompanied Sheriff Morris about the day of the incident. That’s where he gets question about a trade he did with the rangers for a horse. When he answers no, he traded a yegua instead, being misinterpreted the sheriffs thinks he’s trying to lie. He immediately pulls a gun on him and the Sherriff ends up shooting his brother and seeing this Cortez shoots the sheriff. Then the man chase against Gregorio Cortez begins, and not only him but his family which in return gets incarcerated until they find Cortez. Then Boone tells how they went looking for him at a friend’s house that lived in Henry Schnabel’s ranch. When the rangers got to the house it was dark and according to Boone they started firing at them from inside the house. Schnabel and Sherriff Glover ended up dead killed by Gregorio Cortez. After days of chasing him around the plains of Texas Cortez was turned in by a man whose house was being used by Cortez. When Cortez was incarcerated he was appointed an attorney and a translator. That’s where Cortez side of the story gets told. He tells his attorney that he didn’t know why the sheriff wanted him arrested but after seeing him shoot his brother he shot back. That where the attorney tells him there was a