The plot of Far Bright Star is a relatively simple one, and for that reason you probably won't find much detail about it in reviews. It's so straightforward that little information about it can be relayed to potential readers without injecting some sort of spoiler. Really, though, this isn't a book that one reads for its plot; its true appeal is the quality of the author's writing.Beyond the Book
Pancho VillaIn Far Bright Star, Cavalryman Napoleon Childs is a member of an expedition sent to the Mexican border to apprehend bandit Pancho Villa.
Many details of Villa's life are unknown or in dispute. Scholars believe he was born José Doroteo Arango Arambula in 1877 (some sources indicate 1878 or 1879) in San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico. He was the son of an impoverished sharecropper who died when Villa was fifteen. Legend has it that at the age of sixteen Villa returned from a day in the fields to find the wealthy hacienda owner attempting to rape his twelve-year-old sister. Villa shot the man and fled to the hills where he banded with other outlaws during the years that followed, eventually...
