Presidio Soldiers: San Francisco and Beyond

Presidio Soldiers: San Francisco and Beyond by Wayne Bonnett. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780915269280.

A remarkable documentary of American Army life, 1912-1917. Over 150 black and white photographs made by infantryman C. Tucker Beckett illustrating Army life at the Presidio of San Francisco and throughout Becketts service career from the remote Yukon to the Mexican border in 1916 in pursuit of Pancho Villa. A vivid, detailed archive of period military details, uniforms, weapons, equipment, wagons, cavalry, and artillery. Becketts photos of General Pershings Mexican Punitive Expedition are superb, most unseen for over a century, published here in book form for the first time.