Article: The Life and Times of Pancho Villa.(Review)

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. By Friedrich Katz. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 985. $29.95.)

Of all the individuals who rose to prominence during the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa was by far the most enigmatic. The son of a sharecropper, Villa worked variously as a miner, a mason, a bandit, a muleteer, a butcher, and a cattle rustler before joining the Chihuahuan Revolution in 1910. With limited education and scant formal military training, he nevertheless managed in a short span of years to pull together and lead the formidable Division del Norte, "probably the largest revolutionary army that Latin America ever produced" (xiii). ...

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