El Paso

Title:

El Paso

Author:

Groom, Winston, 1944- author.

Personal Author:

Groom, Winston, 1944- author.

ISBN:

9781410495952

Edition:

Large print edition.

Physical Description:

817 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Abstract:

After feared outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa kidnaps his grandchildren, railroad tycoon John Shaughnessy, known as the Colonel, ventures to El Paso with his adopted son and a band of hired cowboys on a rescue mission.

Personal Subject:

Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New -- Fiction.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Outlaws -- Fiction.

Genre:

Action and adventure fiction.

Summary:

Holds:

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Summary

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThree decades after Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with a sweeping American epic.Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, bestselling author Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this episodic saga 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.