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Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
I quit reading in the first chapter after the author spat out two blatant falsehoods in a row. Namely that sleeping on cold ground *causes* rheumatism and that ones muscles will shorten as a result of riding a horse. Her tendency to invent dialog and thoughts of individuals from general sources and inferences was already annoying and repeating incorrect folk wisdom as matters of fact was to much. ( )
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I can whip Carranza and his entire army, but it is asking a great deal to whip the United States also, but I suppose I can do that too. - Pancho Villa, on the eve of the battle of Agua Prieta, October 13, 1915
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For Libby, Racheal, Courtney, and in memory of Jay
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(Prologue) When the soldiers saw the yellow lights of the ranch house, they were seized with hunger.
For thirty years, Porifirio Diaz had been Mexico's benefactor and father, his grizzled head as timeless as the volcanoes that ringed Mexico City.
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Perhaps, as her horse picked its way down through a hot arroyo or climbed the crumbling slopes of the Manzano Mountains, she remembered the Mexican soldiers, sitting the choppy trot of their ponies, Mausers slung over their shoulders, and their leader, so different from the others, with his thick neck and heavy shoulders and brilliant eyes, turned inward and focused on the rage that would shape his destiny.
Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
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