Guns Across the River (Gringos 1) by JD Sandon

Author:JD Sandon [Sandon, J.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Western, Mexican Revolution, Cowboy fiction, Angus Wells, Piccadilly Cowboys
Publisher: Piccadilly
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

THE SUMMER OF 1913 was hot and bloody. Huerta sat tight in Mexico City, content to leave his officers to fight the growing armies of rebels while he drank himself to a stupor and ignored the ruin of his country. To the south, in Morelos, Emiliano Zapata led his peon followers against the hacendados. In the north, in Chihuahua and Sonora, Pancho Villa rode free, looting in the name of revolution. To the northeast, in Coahuila, Venustiano Carranza was organizing formal opposition to the debauched dictator.

In the United States, President Taft was replaced by Woodrow Wilson. The new incumbent, though personally sympathetic to the ideals of the revolutionaries, was under pressure from those business organizations having interests in Mexico and consequently anxious to see Huerta win. At the same time, Pancho Villa was angering the citizens of Texas and New Mexico with his forays across the border. Wilson was forced to declare an embargo on all shipments of arms from America into Mexico. It was a move that hit the rebels hard. Equally, it increased the value of weapons, no matter how they were obtained.

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