War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion - Jeff Guinn
Category: History
Tags: History, Misc. Non-fiction
An engagingly written (The Wall Street Journal) account of the Punitive Expedition of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in the Southwestern US to this day., Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, and Jim Jones) tells the riveting and supremely entertaining narrative (S.C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon) of Pancho Villas bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. The Punitive Expedition was launched in retaliation under Pershings command and brought together the Army, National Guard, and the Texas Rangerswho were little more than organized vigilantes with a profound dislike of Mexicans on both sides of the border. Opposing this motley military brigade was Villa, a guerrilla fighter who commanded an ever-changing force of conscripts in northern Mexico., The American ex
