Editing Brewster County, Texas (section)

===Pancho Villa and ''banditos''===
Brewster County became targeted by incursions of bandits from Mexico, inspired at least in part by [[Pancho Villa]]. In June 1915, [[James E. Ferguson|Governor James E. Ferguson]] asked [[Woodrow Wilson|President Woodrow Wilson]] to station troops in the Big Bend. The request was denied by [[Frederick Funston|Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston]], who believed such security was a state issue. Although a number of events took place to effect policy change, the tipping point was the May 5, 1916, raid at Glenn Spring. Only nine soldiers had been stationed in the area for protection against the bandits. Estimates vary as to the number of Mexican raiders who attacked the soldiers, from 60 to several hundred. The raid caused a larger military presence in the area. President Wilson mobilized the [[National Guard of the United States|National Guard]] to reinforce the Army, and by the end of 1916, an estimated 116,957 guardsmen were stationed along the border from [[California]] to Texas. As the mines and wax factories played out after [[World War I]], raids from across the border abated.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kohout |first=Martin Donell |title=Glenn Spring Raid |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcgdu |work=Handbook of Texas Online |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=December 13, 2010|date=June 15, 2010 }}</ref>