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Language
English
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Description
The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches. Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler, a horse...
Author
Publisher
Taurus
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
233 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Demonstrates the hold that Pancho Villa has had on the imagination in and outside of Mexico from his day to the present in films, books, monuments, objects with his name and portrait, popular religion, and other areas.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 477 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After Pancho Villa, a feared outlaw and revolutionary, kidnaps a railroad tycoon known as the Colonel's grandchildren, he and his adopted son head to El Paso in hopes of finding men brave enough to hunt the criminal down.
9) Pancho Villa
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) El vago
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
309 p., 2 p. of plates : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2015, 2008
Edition
1. ed. en colección booket.
Physical Desc
860 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
Con su estilo narrativo vibrante, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, revela secretos sobre la vida de uno de los líderes más valientes y carismáticos de México -Volviendo a través de los aspectos más peculiares de su personalidad a sus momentos más definitorios transformando una nación. Pancho Villa es el retrato de un espectáculo polémico personaje era conocido por estar siempre a la carrera, incluso después de su muerte.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the turn-of-the-century Mexican outlaw who helped overthrow the Diaz government in the Revolution of 1910.
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
This classic of Mexican cinema follows the adventures of six young men who leave their rural homes to join Pancho Villa's army. Together the men endure hardship, tragedy, and disillusionment for the cause of the Mexican Revolution.
Author
Series
Legends of the desert volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Pancho Villa befriends Henry Fountain, a bandit betrays him, Apache Kid challenges him, and a wealthy hacendado, and Apache Elias try to kill him. Riveting historical fiction that reveals the hidden world of the Sierra Madre Apaches. Knight's Odyssey is a revenant story of survival, courage, love, and debts paid and forgiven"--
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
Edition
Widescreen (16:9) presentation.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffith and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two...
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