(Read free ebook) Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846–1861
| #1263838 in Books | University of Oklahoma Press | 2010-01-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.68 x6.00l,.98 | File Name: 0806141328 | 328 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Not Soldiers|By George Burns|Soldiers, even the best led and disciplined, sometimes commit atrocities. It should not be surprising that "volunteers" motivated primarily by greed and vengeance fall far short of the standard of conduct demanded of a professional army. The Texas rangers operated largely in the cauldron of terror that was the borderlands of Texas and Mexico during|About the Author|
|Michael L. Collins, Regents Professor of History at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas, is coauthor of Profiles in Power: Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington and author of That Damned Cowboy
Reconsidering the myth of good guys in white hats”
The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has been largely overlookeduntil now.
This engaging history pulls readers back to a chaotic time along the lower Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century. T...
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