[Dead Insurrecto]

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Photograph of an unidentified rancher on horseback looking down at the body of a dead Mexican 'bandit' or Insurrecto in the Chihuahuan Desert. Postcard captions reads: 'The bodies of dead bandits found all along the trail of Pancho Villa'.

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Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921 [1910..1920].

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This postcard is part of the collection entitled: The Mexican Revolution on the Border: Primary Sources from El Paso and was provided by the El Paso Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 31 times. More information about this postcard can be viewed below.

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Photograph of an unidentified rancher on horseback looking down at the body of a dead Mexican 'bandit' or Insurrecto in the Chihuahuan Desert. Postcard captions reads: 'The bodies of dead bandits found all along the trail of Pancho Villa'.

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1 postcard : b&w

Notes

Additional context: Presumably, 'the trail of Pancho Villa', refers to the path that the Villa Army took after a battle with either the Mexican Federal Army or the U.S. Expedition Army - both Armies were actively perusing Villa and his men out in the Chihuahuan Desert. The unidentified rancher has come across the body of this dead Mexican 'bandit' or Insurrecto somewhere out in the Chihuahuan Desert. The bandit in this photo is missing his right boot. 'Bandits', as this dead man has been labeled by the author, were also known as Insurrectos and fought against the Mexican Federal Army and were part of Pancho Villa's Army. We have no information for the location of this event nor any information about who these two people were. Far at a distance is an unidentified mountain range. Duplicate of WH-PC-196-025.

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The Mexican Revolution on the Border: Primary Sources from El Paso

These primary source items relate to the Mexican Revolution. The collection includes 15 books and 10 postcards dating from 1910 to 1919.

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[Dead Bandit] (Postcard)

[Dead Bandit]

Photograph of an unidentified rancher on horseback looking down at the body of a dead Mexican 'bandit' or Insurrecto somewhere in the Chihuahuan Desert. The postcard captions reads: 'The bodies of dead bandits found all along the trail of Pancho Villa'. See also postcards: [Battlefield Scene in Mexico] - WH-PC-185-009; and [Battlefield Scene in Mexico - Duplicate] - WH-PC-196-012.

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[Dead Bandit], WH-PC-196-025, ark:/67531/metapth187982

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  • [1910..1920]

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  • Oct. 10, 2011, 9:26 p.m.

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  • May 24, 2022, 4:16 p.m.

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Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921. [Dead Insurrecto], postcard, [1910..1920]; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth187970/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting El Paso Public Library.

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