Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (William C. Davis W) Section Underground Railroad Hailing from the south central region 9781611211290 Hailing from the south central region of the state Bearss performed the research and writing for the Department of the Interior in 1969 The genuine story of Velasquez’s life is far more interesting than misguided interpretations and her own fanciful inventions So little has been known of Velasquez’s real life that some postmodern scholars have glorified her as a “woman warrior” and used her as an example in cross gender issues and arguments concerning Hispanic nationalism