El Paso: A Novel

Type

Book

Authors

Groom, Winston

ISBN 10

1631492241

ISBN 13

9781631492242

Tags

Family Saga, Historical, Westerns, United States

Abstract

When the Colonel's famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided, it was Pancho Villa who not only stole the cattle but also murdered the ranch manager. Even worse, Villa's henchmen abduct the Colonels grandchildren in another daring raid only days later. Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo on his own turf. But their deep pockets and political clout mean next to nothing in a crumbling nation rife with communist sympathizers. When a twist of fate unites his party with that of Johnny Ollas, an aspiring matador whose wife has also been kidnapped by the marauding revolutionaries, the two factions gallop off on an extraordinary manhunt through some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth: the vast and snake-ridden Sierra Madre.

Description

Three decades after the publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with a sweeping epic.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Western fiction
Historical fiction
Adventure stories
Action and adventure fiction
Western stories
Adventure fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Pancho Villa; Pancho Villa
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Winston Groom
ISBN: 9781631492242 1631492241 9781631493409 163149340X
OCLC Number: 937452750
Description: 477 pages ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Winston Groom.

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