Photos of Pancho Villa Click on the photos to see larger view Then use you browser back button to return to this page. Pancho Villa on his horse Siete Leguas, taken after the Battle of Ojinaga in January, 1914. Pancho Villa on his horse Siete Leguas. This portrait was made near Ojinaga, Chihuahua, in January, 1914. An earlier pose of Pancho Villa on his horse Siete Leguas taken in 1911 when Villa was still a colonel in the maderista rebellion under the nominal command of Pascual Orozco. Colonel Francisco Villa and his troops place themselves under the personal command of Francisco I. Madero at the Hacienda de Bustillos, Chihuahua, in 1911. In a group portrait after their victory at the Battle of Juarez in 1911, Francisco I. Madero's principal military and political leaders pose for groups photo. Pancho Villa (number 18 in the photo), who had been most responsible for their victory, was given a back row position, while his future rival (number 5), Carranza, was seated in the front row, close to Madero (number 1). Orozco is also on the front row, but down at the far end (number 10). Pancho Villa and the famed Dorados - "The Golden Ones" - his terrible cavalry which would attack firing accurately at a full gallop from their charging horses in the style of warfare originally perfected by the Apache and Comanche Indians whom the Dorados fathers had fought a generation earlier. Villa is shown in front identified by an arrow in the photo. Villa with his "official" wife - Luz Corral. Villa had his own money printed in 1914 and 1915, when he was governor of the state of Chihuahua. He decreed that anyone who refused to accept it as payment or anyone who attempted to use other forms of currency would be jailed, and he was successful in stablizing the economy as a result. This money later on became like Confederate money - stored away by his followers who dreamed that his cause would rise again. Pancho Villa's body after his assassination in 1923. A photo montage of Pancho Villa's corpse was put together by a seller of postcards so that Americans could immerse themselves in morbid fantasies of death over the demise of Villa.

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