Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers
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Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, and rape. Their main objective? To steal cattle, which they herded back across the Rio Grande to sell. Honest citizens found it almost impossible to live...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0292780486
ISBN13:9780292780484
Release Date:January 1962
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
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This book tells the story of Captain Leander McNelly and his Texas Rangers' exploits in the early Reconstruction Era of Texas. It is filled with stories of outlaws and raiders and the men who brought them to justice the McNelly way. I guarantee you are gonna love this book. It is an AWESOME! read.
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