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Fond memories and frog legs: New book recalls life at the Cadillac Bar in Nuevo Laredo FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 Nuevo Laredo’s Cadillac Bar, before the July 1954 flooding of the Rio Grande that devastated the border cities.Courtesy Wanda CashShow MoreShow Less 2of9 Cover of “Pancho Villa’s Saddle at the Cadillac Bar,” by Wanda Garner Cash, published in 2020 by Texas A&M University PressCourtesy Texas A&M University PressShow MoreShow Less 3of9 Wanda Garner Cash poses with Pancho Villa’s saddle, which for many years resided in the Cadillac Bar dining room in Nuevo Laredo. Today it�...

Hill Country author Wanda Garner Cash’s new book, “Pancho Villa’s Saddle at the Cadillac Bar,” is available now at the Hill Country Arts Foundation’s gift shop and online at Texas A&M University Press, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Cash, who lives in Ingram, has been the director of the Texas Arts and Crafts Fair, since retiring as a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Born and reared in Laredo, she is a granddaughter of the founder Mayo Bessan and a daughter of Porter Garner, who built its modern reputation during his tenure from 1946 unt...