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El Paso : a novel by Groom, Winston is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, best-selling author Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this episodic saga set in six parts. Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against the Colonel, a thrill-seeking Bostonian railroad tycoon whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, El Paso opens during a time of dramatic upheaval in Mexicoits government being squeezed on one end by Villas revolutionaries and on the other by filthy American capitalists.Content to observe the war from aboard his dazzling yacht, the Ajax, the Colonel is suddenly pulled into this drama when his famous Valle del Sol ranch is raided for nearly two million and a half dollars in beef on the hoof. Oblivious to the realities of war and hoping to salvage his losses, the Colonel whisks his family down to Mexico where they make a disturbing discovery: it was Villa who not only stole the cattle but also murdered their beloved ranch manager. Even worse, Villas henchmen abduct the Colonels grandchildren in another daring raid only days later.Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race t

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Author

Groom, Winston

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631492259

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14