They called her the “Saint of Cabora” and “Queen of the Yaquis.” Some saw her as the Mexican Joan of Arc. A dictator thought her “the most dangerous girl in Mexico” and ordered her exiled to Arizona Territory; indeed, her name was the battle cry of a doomed revolution. Yet Teresita is not a name that many will recognize. She is largely forgotten, even though she was arguably the most famous Mexican woman in two nations at the turn of the 20th century. She’s almost never found in


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