Blood on the Border : The United States Army and the Mexican Irregulars

New York:: The Macmillan Company, 1969. A clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny. NO fading. NO chips. NOT price-clipped (12.50). Bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. A volume from THE MACMILLAN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES series (Louis Morton, general editor). Illustrated with 7 maps in the text, 29 vintage photos, and 2 sketches by Frederick Remington + endpaper maps of the State of Chihuahua showing the principal actions of the Punitive Expedition. This book traces the history of U.S./Mexican border incidents from 1848 to 1923. A West Point graduate, the author served on the Mexican border with the 1st, 5th, 7th, and 10th cavalry regiments. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original beige cloth, lettered in shiny gold over a bright red panel on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Clendenen tells... the dramatic story of Juan Cortina, sometimes called the Robin Hood of the Mexican border, whose bloody campaigns against the gringos brought out the Texas Rangers and incited the 'Cortina War.' [The book] describes Mackenzie's attack upon the Kickapoo Indians -- the 'scourge of the Rio Grande' -- and the rise of the Apaches under the leadership of Cochise. Generals Crook and Miles' pursuit of Geronimo is covered, along with many minor and forgotten American expeditions across the Mexican border. the intermittent border hostilities reached a climax during the Mexican Revolution of 1916 when Pancho Villa descended upon Columbus, New Mexico, and General Pershing led his troops into Mexico to capture the guerilla leader... Interviewing veterans and uncovering forgotten records, Dr. Clendenen reconstructs the history of small units and the exploits of individual officers and soldiers. He shows the bases for the American commanders' decisions -- and captures the spirit of peril and adventure of the Wild West." . First Printing (so stated).. Hard Cover. Very Good+ condition./VG DJ (1 short closed tear).. 8vo. xviii, 390pp..