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George Durham - Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers (Texas Classics) - 9780292780484 - KEX0266494
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Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers (Texas Classics)

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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 in the Nueces Strip.

In desperation, the governor of Texas called on an extraordinary man, Captain Leander M. McNelly, to take command of a Ranger company and stop these border ... Read more

In Durham's account, those long-ago days are brought vividly back to life. Once again the daring McNelly leads his courageous band across Southwest Texas to victories against incredible odds. With a boldness that overcame their dismayingly small number, the McNellys succeeded in bringing law and order to the untamed Nueces Strip—succeeded so well that they antagonized certain "upright" citizens who had been pocketing surreptitious dollars from the bandits' operations.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Series
Texas Classics
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292780484
SKU
KEX0266494
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Reviews for Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers (Texas Classics)
...the reader seems to smell the acrid gunsmoke and to hear the creak of saddle leather.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly

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