San Antonio College Library

First published in 1931. Author was born in Alamos, Sonora in 1878 and he served in the government and was a go between for Huerta and Pancho Villa. Designed by William D. Witliff.

Presents the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. A poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa's army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. A moving depiction of the limits of political idealism, an authentic representation of Mexico's peasant life and a timeless portrait...

A chronicle of the Cristero War (1926-1929) fought by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government. Focuses on retired General Enrique Gorostieta Velarde, who was reluctant to join in the war, and José Luis Sánchez del Rio, a young boy who witnessed a priest's murder and later is tortured by the government.