War on the border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American invasion
Jeff Guinn
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021
- Copyright:
- ©2021
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- Summary:
- "From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Columbus, New Mexico, March 8-9,1916
- Mexico and America
- Border fences and revolution
- The American puppeteer
- "I do not know what to make of Mexico."
- Film crews and the refugees nobody wanted
- Veracruz
- Carranza and Villa collide
- The Plan de San Diego
- The Texas Rangers and their bandit war
- Wilson chooses Carranza
- Santa Ysabel and the El Paso riots
- Columbus
- The raid
- "The most serious situation"
- Elusive prey
- "Responsibility for the consequences"
- Carrizal
- The return of Villa
- Withdrawal
- Germany makes its move
- The Rangers go too far
- Showdown at Nogales
- Villa's last attack
- Afterward.
- Author/Creator:
- Guinn, Jeff , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Main Work:
- Other Related Resources:
- Print version: War on the border [by Guinn, J.] (First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition; New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021 — ISBN 9781982128869; LCCN 2020049279)
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- General Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Call Numbers:
- F1234 .G85 2021eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781982128883
1982128887 - OCLC Numbers:
- 1250090022
- Other Control Numbers:
- EBC6578530 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302156153