The Old Gringo
An American satirist of seventy-one, sick of his own celebrity and out of family to bury, crosses the border in 1913 to ride with Pancho Villa's northern division and get himself shot, and falls in with a general risen out of the peonage and a governess hired to teach a hacienda's children. Decades later the woman sits alone and remembers it. Ambrose Bierce's disappearance turned into a fable of two countries.
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