For years I’ve been trying to get my hands on a limited print book, ‘ Gringo Doctor ‘  by I.J.Bush. He was Bill Jordan’s Grandfather. This book was mentioned in Jordan’s  book ‘ No Second Place Winner ‘ and I tagged it as a must about ten years ago. It’s a remarkable tale about a surgeon who traveled and practiced along the Wild West Texas border and into Mexico. This was a time of ‘ No Law West of the Pecos ‘ and he lived and worked with some wild tough characters. Besides surgery and having to ride horseback to remote patients 40-80 miles through some interesting country he was also a bit of a archeologist and explorer dealing with the Indian tribes and remote settlements and mining camps deep in the rugged no-man’s land of the Sierra Madres of Sonora and Chihuahua. When the big Mexicans Revolution ignited in the early 1900’s the good doctor cut tracks with Pancho Villa and became 
‘ Surgeon General of the Insurrecto Army  ‘ . Wow what a title what a tale.

After about ten years of hoping to find a volume within financial reach I saw an offering on Abe Books for around $40.00 shipped. Original printings running $400 to $500 so I bit but didn’t follow the fine print close enough. It was three months delivery, no tracking, no nothing. It just showed up one day. But it’s a pretty nice leather bond book from some obscure bindery in Delhi, India. It’s a great read so if you’re like me interested in that period of the West and the Mexican border region you’ll love it

Rick ( always two clicks off the topic ) 

Wayne, your thought prompted me to recall what I thought was a good read by the single shot rifle author Kelver, 15 years on the western frontier.