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Forrest Gump author Groom has written a brawny, sprawling novel, part legend and part history, about outlaws, revolutionaries, railroad tycoons, kidnappings, and daring rescues. While Europe plunges into the Great War, the Mexican Revolution intrudes on the still wild American Southwest. Railroad tycoon John Shaughnessy, known as the Colonel, learns that Pancho Villa has stolen cattle from his northern Mexico ranch, so he launches a partylike excursion to Mexico in his p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More