Sam Dreben was an El Paso soldier of fortune who fought for various factions of the Mexican Revolution including the Maderistas, Orozquistas, Villistas and Carrancistas. He was called the “Fighting Jew.” According to Patrick O’Hea, a friend of his, Dreben was “the antithesis of a swashbuckler, he was silent and diffident concerning his feats of arms but took a sort of modest pride in his profession as might any other artificer or master craftsman.”
