Tierra del Oro    |   home Forty Grains of Black Powder   |   Legend of the Sierra Madre   |   Los Pobres   |   La Puerta del Sol   |   A Lion Against the Wind   |   Bitter Victory   |   Tierra y Libertad   |   The Horse Tamers   |   Tesoro A Lion Against the Wind Mexican Highlands, 1903 - 1909 What makes a man fight?  Sometimes the enemy is not who we think he is.  The  windswept village of Los Pobres appears to be as desolate  as the plains of Sonora that surround it, but social unrest simmers in little towns all across Mexico.   Journeys of lovers who have parted badly, questions of faith and decisions of honor. These force Ramón Cordero to put away fantasies and personal desires  in order to help free his countrymen from tyranny.