Robert Keil papers concerning the Porvenir massacre, circa 1920.

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In English.

Purchased from Buckingham Books on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2015.

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Robert Keil (1898- ) served in the 8th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army on the Mexican-American Border from 1913 to 1918. He remained in western Texas until 1920, working as a Civil Service packer. Keil was present at the 1918 Porvenir Massacre, an incident in which Texas Rangers killed 15 Mexican villagers outside the village of Porvenir in Presidio County, Texas.

Carbon copy typescript with manuscript corrections by Robert Keil, United States cavalryman, describing his experience during the 1918 Porvenir Massacre, circa 1920. Accompanied by 11 black and white photographs of Troop G of the Eighth United States Cavalry, undated.

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Robert Keil Papers Concerning the Porvenir Massacre. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Robert Keil Papers Concerning the Porvenir Massacre. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.