War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion Guinn Jeff
War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion Guinn Jeff An "engagingly written" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the "Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought…
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion Guinn Jeff
An "engagingly written" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the "Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon) of Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. 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.
Opposing this motley military brigade was The "Punitive Expedition" was launched in retaliation under Pershing's command and brought together the Army, National Guard, and the Texas Rangers--who were little more than organized vigilantes with a profound dislike of Mexicans on both sides of the border.