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"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.

1916. After Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town, the "Punitive Expedition" was launched in retaliation. Under Pershing's command it 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. Villa was a guerrilla fighter who commanded an ever-changing force of conscripts in northern Mexico. The American expedition was the last action by the legendary African-American "Buffalo Soldiers" and the first time the Army used automobiles and trucks, as well as Curtiss Jenny airplanes that did reconnaissance. Guinn tells how the effects of this military incursion still haunt the border region to this day. -- adapted from jacket

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.

United States. Army > History > Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916.

Texas Rangers > History > 20th century.

Mexican-American Border Region > History > 20th century.

Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920.

North America > Mexican-American Border Region.