Thomas Ty Smith: 1 book
The Old Army in the Big Bend of Texas
The Last Cavalry Frontier, 1911-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Even before Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the following punitive expedition under General John J. Pershing, the U.S. Army was strengthening its presence on the southwestern border in response to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Manning forty-one small outposts along a three-hundred...
