The general and the jaguar : Pershing's hunt for Pancho Villa : a true story of revolution and revenge
(2006)
By:
Welsome, Eileen
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
972.0816/WELSOME,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Co., [2006]
©2006
©2006
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
viii, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0316715999 (hardcover), 9780316715997
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A microbe challenges an elephant -- A diverting brute -- Veracruz -- Downhill -- Tell President Wilson to save you -- Only one chance to die -- Rumors, warnings, and telegrams -- Villa is coming tonight, for sure -- The fiddler plays -- Very unnatural deaths -- To the end of the furrow -- Sunburn, frostbite, and blisters -- Pershing's indigestion -- No one to seek for -- Gasoline baths and confessions -- Jerked to Jesus -- A ripe pear -- A terrible blunder -- Whore dust and a rabid dog -- An old colonel -- A reborn town -- Victims or bandits? -- Death comes for the horsemen