At Juárez racetrack. 1. Col. Matt Winn, head of the racetrack; 2. Pancho Villa 3. General Hugh Scott 4. Major Mickie 5. General Fierro. 1916. As Beto O’Rourke gave interviews in 2019 from his Sunset ...

This week Christopher Lance Habermeyer, author of Gringos' Curve: Pancho Villa's Massacre of American Miners in Mexico, 1916, contacted me about the anniversary of the massacre happening Jan. 10. The ...

When Venustiano Carranza was president. 12,000 Americans crossed the border To hunt down and punish Pancho Villa for a “slip.” Poncho Villa (between 1908 and 1919, Library of Congress On March 9, 1916 ...

On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 29, 1917, the El Paso Times reported that all business would be suspended and that civil and military operations would cease for a day of thanks. But the story that led the ...

Captain Charles T. Boyd led his mounted troopers across the Mexican desert. He had been ordered to avoid a fight. But on June 21, 1916, outside Carrizal, Mexico, Boyd faced 400 Mexican federal troops ...