Esteban Luján's EL RONDÍN is a first person account of General Pasqual Orozco, Jr.'s 1912 uprising in Chihuahua, Mexico and one of the earliest written documents about this important period of the Mexican Revolution. Translated into English by Esteban Luján's great grandson, the military actions of Colonel Toribio Ortega and Colonel José de la Cruz Sánchez are described from the beginning of the uprising in Coyame on February 5, 1912 to Orozco's defeat at Ojinaga on September 14, 1912. This republication of EL RONDÍN also includes the original text, a modern Spanish version, photos, maps and chronology, giving new life to a little known treasure.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	66
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Regent Press Printers & Publishers
Fecha de Publicación	2019-06-15
Dimensiones	11.0" x 8.5" x 0.18" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	Mexicano, Mexicano

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.

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.