Format:
Online-Ressource (441 p.)
ISBN:
9781574412055
Series Statement:
Savage Frontier, 2
Content:
Focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839. By early 1838, the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether. This work shows how the major general of the Texas Militia worked around legal constraints in order to keep mounted rangers in service
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; 1 The Texas Militia Takes the Field; 2 "Shoulder Your Arms and Chastize the Enemy"; 3 The Kickapoo War; 4 To the Border and Beyond; 5 Campaigns of the Red River Riflemen; 6 Morgan Massacre and Bryant's Defeat; 7 Moore's Comanche Raid and theBattle of Brushy Creek; 8 The Córdova and Flores Fights; 9 Bird's Creek Fight; 10 The Cherokee War; 11 Pursuit and Removal; 12 Colonel Neill's Gunmen On the Offensive; 13 Karnes' Hill Country Comanche Expedition; 14 "Short But Decisive Affair"; Afterword; Chapter Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781574413984
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781574412055
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Savage Frontier : Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas
Language:
English
Keywords:
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