More Patton background here: Pershing lost his wife and 2 daughters to a tragic fire at Ft. Bliss TX around 1912-- he later was "seeing Patton's sister Bernice, but they never married-- didn't hurt Patton's career- same year 1912- when Jim Thorpe hammered the Olympic games, Patton won the pistol shooting championship, stayed with his Army 1873 Colt SA- even though the Army Ordnance Board was moving towards the Colt 1911 autoloading pistol--
Patton shot with deadly accuracy from his mounted horse, at the other Mexican banditos, who were also moving around his men (armed with 1903 Springfield rifles) and on foot-- Patton was using a Ford Model -T for his "staff car" and returned to Ft. Bliss with 3 dead Mexicans draped over the hood- Pershing nicknamed him "Lt. Sure-Shot"-- RWTF
