Presidio Soldiers: San Francisco and Beyond

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 Beckett's 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. Beckett's photos of General Pershing's Mexican Punitive Expedition are superb, most unseen for over a century, published here in book form for the first time.