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La Cabeza De Villa

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La Cabeza De Villa

August 20, 2026

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A lively El Paso circle known as the Wednesday Group became absorbed in the mystery of Pancho Villa’s missing skull after Pablo Bush Romero read Ben F. Williams’s memoir Let the Tail Go with the Hide , which claimed that American adventurer Emil Holmdahl had robbed Villa’s tomb in Parral in 1926…

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