El Rondín: Campaigns of Colonel Toribio Ortega and Colonel José de la Cruz Sánchez in the Revolution of 1912 / Campañas del coron - Paperback

Van Coops, Jonathan: - Jonathan Van Coops is a great grandson of Esteban Luján. A geographer and longtime San Francisco resident now retired from a nearly 40 year career with the California Coastal Commission, his natural interest in the Luján family history resulted in this translation.Luján, Esteban: - Esteban Luján was born December 25, 1867 (son of Hilario Luján and Victoriana Acosta Luján) in El Polvo, Texas, about sixteen miles south of Presidio, Texas and Ojinaga, Chihuahua in the region called La Junta de los Ríos, the confluence of the Río Conchos and the Río Bravo (Río Grande) and the boundary between Mexico and the United States. El Polvo received a post office and became known as Redford, Texas in 1911. Married in 1891 in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, information about his early years and education are mostly unknown but somehow he learned or was taught to read and write, eventually becoming a credentialed schoolteacher. He was 44 years of age when he wrote El Rondín, and it is possible that he developed the text from notes in his diary. As the family history goes, at some point he was in the service of Generals Toribio Ortega and Francisco Villa as a scribe and messenger. Eventually he moved west with his family, resettling in Stockton, California in 1920. During a time when the Mexican government arrested and murdered opposition leaders and their associates and sent agents into the United States to search for them, he spoke little of his activities during the Revolution and never again set foot in Mexico. He died in Garvey (now Rosemead), California in 1946 and is buried in Los Angeles, California.