Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Prologue 1
6. PART ONE From Outlaw to Revolutionary
7. CHAPTER ONE From the Frontier to the Border 9
8. CHAPTER TWO The Revolution That Neither Its Supreme Leader Nor Its Opponents Expected. The Chihuahuan Revolution, I9IO-I9II, and the Role of Pancho Villa 57
9. CHAPTER THREE Disillusion and Counterrevolution. Chihuahua, 1912-1913 126
10. CHAPTER FOUR An Unrequited Love. Villa and Madero, 1912-1913 147
11. PART TWO From Revolutionary to National Leader
12. CHAPTER FIVE From Exile to Governor of Chihuahua: The Rise of Villa in 1913 191
13. CHAPTER SIX Four Weeks. That Shook Chihuahua. Villa's Brief but Far-Reaching Governorship 229
14. CHAPTER SEVEN The Villista Leaders 253
15. CHAPTER EIGHT The Division del Norte 287
16. CHAPTER NINE Villa's Emergence as a National Leader. His Relations with the United States and His Conflict with Carranza 309
17. CHAPTER TEN The Elusive Search for Peace 354
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN Villismo in Practice Chihuahua Under Villa, 1913-1915 397
19. CHAPTER TWELVE The New Civil War in Mexico. Villismo on the Offensive 433
20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory 487
21. PART THREE From National Leader to Guerrilla Leader
22. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Villa's Two- Front War with Carranza and the United States 543
23. CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Resurgence of Villa in 1916-1917 583
24. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Villa's Darkest Years. The Savage and Bloody Guerrilla Struggle in Chihuahua, 1917-1920 615
25. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Villa and the Outside World 655
26. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Attempt to Create Villismo with a Gentler Face. The Return of Felipe Angeles 680
27. PART FOUR Reconciliation, Peace, and Death 717
28. CHAPTER NINETEEN From Guerrilla Leader to Hacendado 717
29. CHAPTER TWENTY The End and the Survival of Villa 761
30. Conclusion 795
31. APPENDIX On the Archival Trail of Pancho Villa 821
32. Abbreviations 837
33. Notes 839
34. Archival Sources 911
35. Bibliography 919
36. Index 955