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The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution . By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. ix + 559 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) In 1916 the U.S. Army marshaled 12,000 regular troops for a cross-border campaign against Pancho Villa while 150,000 national guardsmen occupied American communities from Brownsville to San Diego. This volume should dispel any future attempt to conflate the two. Overshadowed by the Punitive Expedition, the “great call-up” revealed logistical problems ranging from poor transportation to reliance on animals and outdated weaponry. It also forced interaction between volunteers from Maine to Idaho, as well as with border residents who competed for the economic benefits of their presence, “thus eroding regionalism and contributing … jleiker1{at}jccc.edu
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