El Paso a novel

Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. An episodic novel set in six parts, El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa,...

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Main Author: Groom, Winston, 1944- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. An episodic novel set in six parts, El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa, a much-feared outlaw and revolutionary, against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known as the Colonel, whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico. But when Villa kidnaps the Colonel's grandchildren in the midst of a cattle drive, and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the aging New England patriarch and his adopted son head to El Paso, hoping to find a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt the Generalissimo down.
Physical Description:477 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9781631492242
1631492241
Author Notes:Winston Groom is the author of twenty previous books, including Forrest Gump , Conversations with the Enemy (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Shiloh 1862 , and The Generals . He served in Vietnam with the Fourth Infantry Division and lives in Point Clear, Alabama.