the Old Gringo Author:Carlo Fuentes "I have lived with this story for a long time. It was conceived about forty years ago in Mexico, when I first read the stories of Ambrose Bierce. It lay dormant until 1964 when I wrote the first ten pages during a train trip through Chilhuahua, San luis Potosi and Zacatecas. It was resuscitated in 1970 during a month I spent in Durango when I ... more »was able to speak with men and women who had fought alongside Pancho Villa...........« less