Showing posts with label Victor Vera. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Horseshoer Killed in Pancho Villa's Famous 1916 "Invasion" of New Mexico

Pancho Villa and officers, 1916.
General Francisco "Pancho" Villa was the people's hero during the Mexican Civil War in the early 1900s; depending on which history book you read, he was Braveheart with a great mustache...or Osama bin Laden in a sombrero.


Here's some history you won't find in any textbook. 

Montana farrier Scott Simpson and I share a fascination with the history of a raid by Mexican General Francisco "Pancho" Villa, who slipped across the border and raided the town of Columbus, New Mexico at dawn on March 9, 1916.  But I didn't expect there to be a horseshoer involved. Now I know otherwise.