Download or read book The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch s Texas Rangers Or The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico 1846 written by Samuel Chester Reid and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Texas Rangers written by Mike Cox and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that wandered the Texas territory. As the influx of settlers grew, the attacks increased and it became clear that a much larger, better trained force was necessary. From their tumultuous beginning to their decades of fighting outlaws, Comanche, Mexican soldados and banditos, as well as Union soldiers, the Texas Rangers became one of the fiercest law enforcement groups in America. In a land as spread-out and sparsely populated as the west itself, the Rangers had unique law-enforcement responsibilities and challenges. The story of the Texas Rangers is as controversial as it is heroic. Often accused of vigilante-style racism and murder, they enforced the law with a heavy hand. But above all they were perhaps the defining force for the stabilization and the creation of Texas. From Stephen Austin in the early days through the Civil War, the first eighty years of the Texas Rangers is nothing less then phenomenal, and the efforts put forth in those days set the foundation for the Texas Rangers that keep Texas safe today. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Texas Rangers written by Bob Alexander and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such as One Riot, One Ranger? Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy is the authors’ answer to these questions, a one-volume history of the Texas Rangers. The authors begin with the earliest Rangers in the pre-Republic years in 1823 and take the story up through the Republic, Mexican War, and Civil War. Then, with the advent of the Frontier Battalion, the authors focus in detail on each company A through F, relating what was happening within each company concurrently. Thereafter, Alexander and Brice tell the famous episodes of the Rangers that forged their legend, and bring the story up through the twentieth century to the present day in the final chapters.
Download or read book The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch s Texas Rangers written by Samuel Chester Reid and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lone Star Justice written by Robert M. Utley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey or Larry McMurtry. The Rangers began in the 1820s as loose groups of citizen soldiers, banding together to chase Indians and Mexicans on the raw Texas frontier. Utley shows how, under the leadership of men like Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch, these fiercely independent fighters were transformed into a well-trained, cohesive team. Armed with a revolutionary new weapon, Samuel Colt's repeating revolver, they became a deadly fighting force, whether battling Comanches on the plains or storming the city of Monterey in the Mexican-American War. As the Rangers evolved from part-time warriors to full-time lawmen by 1874, they learned to face new dangers, including homicidal feuds, labor strikes, and vigilantes turned mobs. They battled train robbers, cattle thieves and other outlaws--it was Rangers, for example, who captured John Wesley Hardin, the most feared gunman in the West. Based on exhaustive research in Texas archives, this is the most authoritative history of the Texas Rangers in over half a century. It will stand alongside other classics of Western history by Robert M. Utley--a vivid portrait of the Old West and of the legendary men who kept the law on the lawless frontier.
Download or read book The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas written by Kelly F. Himmel and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the conquest of the Karankawas and Tonkawas Indians by white settlers in nineteenth-century Texas.
Download or read book Eyewitness to the Old West written by Richard Scott and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2004-02-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-century collisions between the Spaniards and the Indians and conclude with Black Elk's mournful description of the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Storytellers include explorers, missionaries, India leaders, a poet, an artist, and a future president.
Download or read book The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch s Texas Rangers Or The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico 1846 written by Samuel Chester Reid and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Engraved Prints of Texas written by Mavis Parrott Kelsey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of illustrated black-and-white engravings depicting the history of Texas from 1554 to 1900 presented chronologically and featuring a brief introduction to the historical background of each era.
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Download or read book The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch s Texas Rangers Or The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico 1846 written by Samuel C. Reid, Jr. and published by Scholars Book Shelf. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint. An important work on the Mexican War, first published in 1847 and detailing the 1846 campaign of the American army, especially at Monterey and Buena Vista. Written by an active member of the Texas Rangers, the book includes a great deal of detail about their organization and lives, leaders and adventures, and the battles in which they were involved. 290 pages. Softcover.
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