OA N october 6, 1925, Jesu's Antonio Almeida, governor of Chihuahua, married Susanna Nesbitt Becerra. It was a gala occasion, perhaps the first such social event since the days of the Porfiriato. The wedding was an important political, as well as social, landmark. The marriage brought together two poweiful subregional elite families with strong bases in the western districts of the state. But more importantly, it connoted the process of accommodation taking place between the old, Porfirian elite and the new revolutionary elite in Chihuahua. The Almeida brothers-Alberto B., Benjamin, Esteban, Casimiro, and Jesu's Antonio-were politicians, ranchers, lumbermen, and merchants. They were representative of the middle class that had emerged from the years of chaos; beginning as small ranchers or businessmen in western Chihuahua, grabbing economic opportunity and challenging for political power. The bride was the daughter of a family that had ruled Urique (a mining center in western Chihuahua) for a century, and which had been one of the pillars of the old regime. Even more striking, the guest list of the wedding included the most prominent families of the old order: Terrazas, Creel, Lujan, Falomir, and Prieto.' What had become of the revolution, when revolutionary generals and scions of the ancien regimne ate, drank, and danced together as if more than a decade of war and suffering had not happened? One of the least studied and, perhaps, most intriguing aspects of the history of revolutions is the fate of the members of the elite of the old regime. Did the old elite or some portion of it survive the revolution? If