FRIENDS OF PANCHO VILLA
FRIENDS OF PANCHO VILLA With his debut novel on legendary Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin, The Pistoleer, James Carlos Blake demonstrated a rare talent for western and historical fiction. And Pancho…
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FRIENDS OF PANCHO VILLA
With his debut novel on legendary Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin, The Pistoleer, James Carlos Blake demonstrated a rare talent for western and historical fiction. And Pancho Villa was its "incarnation and its eagle of a soul"--so says Rodolfo Fierro, the novel's narrator, an ex-con, train robber, and Villa's loyal friend. His second book, The Friends of Pancho Villa, now back in print, further proved his mastery in the genre, taking on an even mightier figure of North American legend--the most memorable leader of the Mexican Revolution.Violently waged from 1910 to 1920, the revolution profoundly transformed Mexican government and culture.
And in return, they shared victory and death with their country's most powerful hero. Killers of men and lovers of life, the revolutionaries fought for freedom, for a new Mexico, for Villa. The Friends of Pancho Villa is a