Early in the morning on this day in 1918, in the rugged northern Chihuahua Desert, on the Texan side of the Rio Grande, fifty miles west of Marfa, in land inhabited for thousands of years by the Rarámuri, Apache and Comanche, U.S. Rangers, seeking to make an example of Mexicans they fear might revolt against U.S. rule, enter the tiny mixed village of Porvenir and forcibly remove all 150 inhabitants from their homes. They pick two boys and 13 men, all ethnically-Mexican, lead them to a nearby hilltop, and shoot them all dead, leaving the bodies where they lay. The Rangers wait over a month to file a fictional report of the incident. An investigation and trial conclude that none of the Rangers are guilty. The people of Porvenir abandon their village.