SOLDIER OF FORTUNE -- ADVENTURING IN LATIN AMERICA AND MEXICO WITH EMIL LEWIS HOLMDAHL

ILLUSTRATIONS - CONT'D.

Map 4:  The general campaign route of the punitive expedition. -- Halcyon Press

A troop of the 7th Cavalry, "Custer's Own" departs Ft. Bliss near El Paso to join the punitive expedition. -- Aultman Collection

Brig. Gen John "Black Jack" Pershing was frustrated by the limitations placed upon his punitive expedition and thwarted in his attempts to kill or capture Villa. -- National Archives

The U.S. cavalry, the backbone of Pershing's force, probed 250 miles into the desert and mountain country of Chihuahua. -- Aultman Collection

Second Lt. George Patton got his nickname, "Blood and Guts," after he brought three bloody corpses into Pershing's camp. -- Aultman Collection

One of the Dodge touring cars used by Patton in his raid on the Rubio ranch.  It was the young officer's first gunfight. -- Aultman Collection

Maps of the Rubio Ranch from a sketch by Patton.
1. Patton's auto
2. and 3. Other autos
4. Dead tree where Patton climbed the roof
5. Bandit on horseback killed
6. Bandit on horseback killed
7. Col. Cardenas leaps from window
8. Col. Cardenas killed
9. Cow skinners
-- from a drawing by Lt. George Patton
 

The Palace Hotel in Sierra Blanca, Texas.  It was here that gunfighter Dave Allison told Patton, "When attacked by a man on horseback, shoot at the horse." -- Courtesy Sierra Blanca Museum