Download or read book Nueces Grit written by Mark Greathouse and published by Defiance Press & Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nueces Grit: Texans Answer the Call absorbs readers in the events and accompanying dynamics sweeping South Texas during the early years of the War Between the States. Texas' best men have joined the fight, leaving the Texas frontier vulnerable to desperadoes, bandits, and hostile Indians. Follow the epic adventures of Texas Ranger Captain Luke Dunn, as he delivers frontier justice across the war-ravaged treacherous prairies of the Nueces Strip of South Texas. Grit...action...passion...just about anywhere Dunn rides, death could be reaching for his reins. Nueces Grit: Texans Answer the Call will be available online in December in print, eAudio, and eBook from all leading booksellers.
Download or read book More Than Just Grit written by Richard J. Zimmermann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of Civil War history emphasizes generalship (or the lack of it) as the key factor in analyzing why battles were won or lost. Taking an innovative approach, this book focuses on six elements of victory in nine important Western Theater engagements during 1862--a year when the North had not yet fully mobilized for war. With increasing complexity on the battlefield and the enormous growth of American armies, winning or losing depended upon achieving as many of these six critical goals as possible: a clear objective; mobilization of effective lieutenants; a competent staff; seizing and holding initiative; deploying all available resources; and realizing a successful strategic outcome. The more goals achieved, the greater the victory.
Download or read book Starlight written by Jack Sheriff and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Guiana is set up and framed for bank robbery and murder. He must confront an enemy he has never met and fight a savage battle that will decide his future.
Download or read book Taming the Nueces Strip written by George Durham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Durham’s account is modest and straightforward . . . has many lessons for anyone interested in the history of the Old West, leadership or law enforcement.” —American West Review 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 bandits. One of McNelly’s recruits for this task was George Durham, a Georgia farm boy in his teens when he joined the “Little McNellys,” as the Captain’s band called themselves. More than half a century later, it was George Durham, the last surviving “McNelly Ranger,” who recounted the exciting tale of taming the Nueces Strip to San Antonio writer Clyde Wantland. 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. “The reader seems to smell the acrid gunsmoke and to hear the creak of saddle leather.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Texas at Austin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Paper written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nueces Reprise written by Mark Greathouse and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From here, our story picks up with Luke Dunn having begun to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with in bringing justice to the Nueces Strip as a Texas Ranger under special authorization from the nominal head of the Rangers, John C. "Rip" Ford. While companies of Rangers are funded at various times when threats arise and money comes available, Luke is left to almost single-handedly exercise law across the vast reaches of prairie. When not on his Texas Ranger assignments, he works with his wife at building their Heaven's Gate ranch near Nuecestown just west of Corpus Christi. With Luke's success in eliminating the likes of Bad Bart Strong and Dirk Cavendish while weakening Carlos Perez comes a high level of notoriety. Luke will continue to find himself conflicted between the roles of Texas Ranger bringing justice to the Nueces Strip and rancher and family man contributing to the settlement of the region. But with the notoriety of killing lawbreakers comes the threats of those looking to make a name for themselves. Rip Ford's assignments are woven into the context of Luke dealing with the very real menaces that he must face on the vast reaches of the Strip. Carlos Perez is hardly the least of the perils Luke will face, as he must hunt the powerful obsessive mastermind of an intricate defrauding of the military and Indians in Texas.
Download or read book Transactions written by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols., 1920-1949, contain collections of papers according to subject.
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Download or read book Storm Over the Bay written by Mary Jo O'Rear and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But all that changed after September 14, 1919, when a massive hurricane struck the bay and buried the downtown area under ten feet of debris. Estimates of the death toll ranged from nearly 300 to 1,000, and the storm left millions of dollars of damage in its wake. The citizens of Corpus Christi, however, rather than being demoralized, were galvanized by the disaster. In gripping detail, author Mary Jo O'Rear chronicles the successful efforts of the newly unified Corpus Christi, efforts that culminated in the dedication of the Port of Corpus Christi on September 14, 1926 - seven years to the day after the storm that devastated the city.
Download or read book Transactions written by Metallurgical Society of AIME. and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Grit written by Pat Maycroft and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nueces Blood written by Mark Greathouse and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions to Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology of the Coastal Plain of Texas West of Brazos River written by Alexander Deussen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
