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The general and the jaguar : Pershing's hunt for Pancho Villa : a true story of revolution and revenge / Eileen Welsome.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 403 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0316715999 (hardcover)
  • 9780316715997 (hardcover)
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Contents:
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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 972.0816 W463 Available 33111004584864
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Pulitzer Prize winner Eileen Welsome tells the gripping, panoramic story of a vicious surprise attack on the United States and the American hunt for the perpetrator: Pancho Villa.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-393) and index.

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.

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