Pancho and Black Jack Author:Frederic Bean In 1916, the whole world believed Pancho Villa invaded America and attacked an unsuspecting New Mexico town. General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, with years of service in the cavalry fighting Geronimo and the Sioux, was the perfect man to hunt down the wily hero of the Mexican Revolution. But what really happened is a sto... more »ry never before told-a searing tale of treachery, seduction, and memorable acts of courage.
In Pancho and Black Jack, we meet Pershing, tormented by the fire which had recently killed his family; Elisa Griensen, Villa's beautiful German mistress; and a rebellious cowboy scout named Will Johnson, all flung together in the impossibly rugged Chihuahuan terrain. The objective is to fulfill Woodrow Wilson's order to capture and punish Villa. The legendary Villa, however, innocent of the raid, has his own plans ...
A stirring novel that takes us into the midst of the last full-scale U.S. mounted cavalry campaign -- and the first motorized fighting -- in American history, Pancho and Black Jack is a human drama of ambition and revenge ... written in men's blood, women's tears, and two governments' carefully crafted lies.« less