Pancho Villa and Black Jack Pershing: The Punitive Expedition in Mexico

by James W. Hurst

Book Overview

The focus of this book is the Expedition, the Villistas, and their leader Francisco Pancho Villa. Villa's early life witnessed the advent of the typewriter, the telephone, linotype, the automobile, the Kodak camera, the first motion pictures, wireless telegraphy, the airplane, and the radio. In the days before his defeat at Columbus and the subsequent routing of his bands by the Punitive Expedition, Villa had a coterie of journalists wherever he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313350043
• ISBN13: 9780313350047
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"