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War on the border Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American invasion

"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...

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Main Author: Guinn, Jeff (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Pershing, John J. > (John Joseph), > 1860-1948.
Villa, Pancho, > 1878-1923.
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.
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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.

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