The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920

Winner of the 2010 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction from Western Writers of America

The Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, and volunteers, a refuge for personnel, an arena for propaganda, and a market for revolutionary loot. El Paso, the largest and most important American city on the Mexican border during this time, was the scene of many clandestine operations as American ...