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The Making of Pancho Villa: How an Outlaw Became a Hero, a Villain, and a Legend for Teens

The Making of Pancho Villa: How an Outlaw Became a Hero, a Villain, and a Legend for Teens

Smith, James

Paperback

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN13: 9798237995237
Publisher: SD
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In 1926, three years after Pancho Villa was shot dead in his own car in Parral, someone opened his grave and took his head. It has never been found.

That is the least strange thing about the record he left behind.

Villa was filmed by an American movie company, sung about in hundreds of ballads, photographed constantly, hunted across northern Mexico by ten thousand United States soldiers, and argued over for a century. He is also one of the hardest people of his era to verify. He took a city by seizing a telegraph line and answering it in the enemy's voice. He printed his own currency. He sold exclusive filming rights to his war. The most widely quoted account of his life, written entirely in the first person, was assembled after his death by a novelist.

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