Chuparosa was a town located in the Perdido region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Named for a flowering shrub native to the region, Chuparosa was, by the Mexican Revolution, a small town without stagecoach access, but with a public market, a bank, a mayor's office, a police (posada; "posse") station, and a cantina where both locals and banditos gathered to drink and gamble. The famed American Wild West gunslinger Landon Ricketts retired to Chuparosa after the Blackwater massacre of 1899, and the town was later visited by the outlaw John Marston, whom Ricketts succeeded in recruiting for the revolutionary cause. From the Rebeldes' storming of El Presidio to the overthrow of Governor Agustin Allende, the town was periodically attacked by banditos and Mexican Army and Rurales personnel.
