Viva Villa!

When Mexican Revolution Gen. Francisco “Pancho” Villa sat on his ornate silver saddle, he probably did not envision that the six-year-old son of a Hollywood director would play “cowboy” on it in his family room in Benedict Canyon, California. In 1933, ten years after Pancho Villa’s assassination, Howard Hawks was filming the movie Viva Villa!, 200 miles outside of Mexico City, when he received Villa’s last saddle as a gift from the general’s widow, María Luz Corral de Vill