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| Above, Pancho Villa on horseback. |
For those who are history buffs and are fans of Winchester rifles, here's a story from the early 20th Century.
Armed with Winchesters and Mausers, Pancho Villa raided a U.S. border town.
American Rifleman has posted the story.
It begins with:
Many Americans live in small communities. It has been that way since the country was born. For generations, small-town folks have lived pleasant, usually quiet lives. For the most part, when excitement comes to such places, the reality is rarely a pleasant one.
That was the situation in the border community of Columbus, N.M., in March 1916. New Mexico had only recently become a state on Jan. 6, 1912. The border with Mexico is just 3 miles from Columbus, and the locals were quite familiar with America’s troubled southern neighbor. The Mexican Revolution began in late 1910, and by 1916, many Mexicans had fled the violence in their own country by crossing into America. In those days, crossing the border was easy, and shops in Columbus had many Mexican customers. Life wasn’t easy in Columbus in those days, but it wasn’t easy anywhere else, either. Even so, the good people on both sides of the border could never imagine the events that would occur on the night of March 9, 1916.
To read more, go here.
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