num_pages: 477
description: Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism injustice and love. An episodic novel set in six parts El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa a much-feared outlaw and revolutionary against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known as the Colonel whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua Mexico. But when Villa kidnaps the Colonels grandchildren in the midst of a cattle drive and absconds into the Sierra Madre the aging New England patriarch and his adopted son head to El Paso hoping to find a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt the Generalissimo down.Replete with gunfights daring escapes and an unforgettable bullfight El Paso with its textured blend of history and legend becomes an indelible portrait of the American Southwest in the waning days of the frontier.
language: English
title: El Paso
publisher: Liveright