General and the Jaguar Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge

Name: General and the Jaguar Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge
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ISBN: 9780803222243

ISBN-10: 0803222246

ISBN-13: 9780803222243

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eileen Welsome

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On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa--"el jaguar"--and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the tiny town of Columbus, New Mexico. It was a vicious surprise attack, ending with corpses piled in the streets and psychological wounds that would last a lifetime. Suspects were rounded up, trials were held, and a virulent backlash against persons of Mexican origin erupted. General John "Black Jack" Pershing was told to assemble a small army, head into Mexico, and get Villa, dead or alive. The last hurrah for the U.S. cavalry, the "Punitive Expedition" marked America's first use of armored tanks, airplanes, and trucks against an enemy. One of…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Eileen Welsome won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award, & a dozen other major journalism awards in 1994 for breaking the story of America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War in "The Plutonium Files." A former John S. Knight Fellow, she lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.



Prologue



The Attack



A Microbe Challenges an Elephant



A Diverting Brute



Veracruz



Downhill



Tell President Wilson to Save You



Only One Chance to Die



Rumors, Warnings, and Telegrams



Villa Is Coming Tonight, for Sure



The Fiddler Plays



Very Unnatural Deaths



The Hunt



To the End of the Furrow



Sunburn, Frostbite, and Blisters



Pershing's Indigestion



No One to Seek For



Revenge and Revival



Gasoline Baths and Confessions



Jerked to Jesus



A Ripe Pear



A Terrible Blunder



Whore Dust and a Rabid Dog



An Old Colonel



A Reborn Town



Victims or Bandits?



Death Comes for the Horsemen


Acknowledgments


Casualties of the Columbus Raid


Chronology


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index