The Rosalie Evans Letters from Mexico

1926. Illustrated. Arranged with comment by her sister, Daisy Caden Pettus, The Rosalie Evans Letters from Mexico presents the story of a North American woman's unsuccessful struggle to hold back the tide of the Mexican Revolution. Ranging from the profoundly intimate to the consciously public, Rosalie Evans' correspondence describes her efforts to protect her hacienda, San Pedro Coxtocan, from the designs of agraristas in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley. Thrust into the turmoil of a country at war with itself, she often appears to have been an innocent abroad. Although showing little awareness of political issues, her account reveals many of the strains within Mexican rural society at the beginning of the twentieth century.