Bosque Bonito
Subtitle: violent times along the borderland during the Mexican Revolution
By: Robert Keil ; edited by Elizabeth McBride.
Contributors: McBride, Elizabeth.
Series: Occasional papers ; no. 7
Publisher: Sul Ross State University, Center for Big Bend Studies
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Alpine, Tex
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780970770905
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Keil, Robert, 1898-; United States. Army. Cavalry, 8th.; Border patrols -- Texas -- Big Bend Region.; Soldiers -- Texas -- Big Bend Region -- Biography.; Violence -- Texas -- Big Bend Region -- History -- 20th century.; Big Bend Region (Tex.) -- History, Military -- 20th century.; Big Bend Region (Tex.) -- Biography.; Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Personal narratives, American.; Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Cavalry operations.; Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920.
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives, American.
Description: Bosque Bonito is a first-hand account written by Robert "Bob" Keil, a US cavalryman stationed in the Big Bend during the violent years of the Mexican Revolution. From 1913 to 1918, Keil lived in the borderlands along the Rio Grande in the wild and primitive Big Bend country of West Texas. He was living the life he had longed for, and he himself said later that his years in the Big Bend were the happiest and wildest years of his life. But they were also years of violence, and he would remain haunted throughout his life by the tragedies he had witnessed. The beauty and tragedy of Keil's river experience were powerfully impressed upon him, and continued to captivate him as time and again he wrote the story. - Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 85).
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction.; title: Mexican history on the border in the early twentieth century; title: American history on the border in the early twentieth century; title: Robert Keil and the Bosque Bonito manuscript; title: Chapter 1 : Memory; title: Chapter 2 : Mexican uprisings and the Bosque; title: Chapter 3 : Banditry along the border; title: Chapter 4 : The Columbus raid; title: Chapter 5 : The Brite raid; title: Chapter 6 : Patrolling the border; title: Chapter 7 : The spy; title: Chapter 8 : Porvenir : the massacre; title: Chapter 9 : Chapter 9 : The Nevill raid; title: Chapter 10 : Pursuit; title: Chapter 11 : Justice in the Big Bend; title: Chapter 12 : Captain Matlack and the aviators; title: Addendum : The pack train