A few faint spots to the fore-edge and bottom edge. Memoir of Leonor Villegas de Magnon, a participant in the Mexican Revolution who rebelled against her aristocratic class. In 1910, she moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas and continued her support of the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria and founding La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross), a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces. [lvi] 297 pages, including Preface (In Search of an Autobiography: On Mapping Women's Intellectual History of the Borderlands) and a lengthy Introduction (Revolutionary Women and the Alternative Press in the Borderlands). Appendixes to the text include the following: Appendix I - Chronology of Events Surrounding the Mexican Revolution; Appendix II - Bio-Bibliography of Historical Characters; Appendix III - Autobiographies of the Mexican Revolution Published Between 1920-1955; Appendix IV - Glossary; Appendix V - Onomastic Index.