Pershing and George Patton, John and Ethel Barrymore, socialist journalist John Reed, Tom Mix, and the legendary Ambrose Bierce, who rides with Villa and offers sardonic observations on the haphazard revolution. Unfortunately, the overconfident Colonel turns a mission to rescue the ranch into a Shaughnessy family expedition and misjudgment that ends with Shaughnessy wives and Arthur’s children being kidnapped by Villa’s rebels. The Colonel lives extravagantly, and so his adopted son, Arthur, works hard to keep the Shaughnessy railroad afloat, and they both know losing the ranch might mean bankruptcy. Up-by-the-bootstraps Irish immigrant–turned–railroad baron John “the Colonel” Shaughnessy learns his ranching operation in Chihuahua, Mexico, is being threatened by Pancho Villa and his rebels. Prolific nonfiction author Groom returns to fiction with a Western saga far different from the novel ( Forrest Gump, 1986, etc.) that later blossomed into a classic Oscar-winning film.
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