Tucson. Dragons of the desert

The end of the 17th century, more than a century before the stories of General Custer or Geronimo, or the films of John Wayne, John Ford, Leone and Clint Eastwood planted an artificial image of the Western and the American Wild West in our collective memory…

Thousands of men and women, natives, novo-Hispanics, Irish Catholics and peninsulars, Hispanics all of them, fought to inhabit these lands. And the elite cavalry corps, which forged its myth and civilisation in those distant sands, still echoes in legend: the dragons of leather.

This is the story of the city of Tucson, its dragoons and its captain, Pedro María de Allande y Saavedra.