Borderlands Curanderos

“A refreshing new perspective . . . reframes borderlands history by focusing not only on faith healers, but squarely on the populations that they served.” — Western Historical Quarterly   2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College   Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos—faith healers—who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outside the realm of “professional medicine,” seemingly b