The in-laws are aghast when Rose Westmoreland boards a train alone, bound for the far edge of the country in search of her missing husband.
Unthinkable for a lady in 1911.
Now she's in El Paso, a city holding its breath, anticipating a spectacle.
A decisive battle of the Mexican Revolution is about to erupt right across the Rio Grande.
Rose's husband, Leonard, sent there by his employer, Stoneman Petroleum, apparently first went native, then disappeared, leaving behind a fiery mistress and ru.
Historia Death in the time of pancho villa: a rose in old el paso mystery, paperback/sandra marshall
