Follow me to hell : McNelly's Texas Rangers and the rise of frontier justice
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250214553 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "Texian devils!" -- Luckless liberators -- The long republic -- A Connecticut Yankee -- The empresario -- The "Magna Carta" -- An inkling of independence -- Unlearned lessons -- Austin behind bars -- "Come to our aid" -- "How do you like that answer?" -- Looting and shouting -- "Hurry on!" -- "Victory purchased with blood" -- Take the fight south -- From bad to worse -- The finest company -- "My men evinced no dismay" -- "Boys, fight to the last!" -- Invading Comancheria -- "Walking whiskey keg" -- Gettysburg of the west -- "Coolness and courage" -- Frontier forces -- "True to his colors" -- Farmer and father -- No book to stop this bullet -- Follow the money -- Another long and bloody war -- Quick with a gun -- "A perfect reign of terror" -- The peacekeepers -- Reporters and rangers -- Patrolling the Nueces strip -- "You must be the judge" -- Emperor McNelly -- "Got you now!" -- "Master of the situation" -- "The jaws of death" -- "Kill all you see" -- Rio Grande standoff -- "Death squad" -- Captain McNelly goes to Washington -- "This rash young man" -- "Two best pistol fighters in Texas" -- The new lieutenant -- "The brave who sink to rest." |
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Subject: | McNelly, Leander H 1843 or 1844-1877 Texas Rangers. Frontier and pioneer life Texas Police, State Texas Biography Texas History 1846-1950 |
Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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Stroud Branch | 363.209764 Cla | 31681010317139 | NONFIC | Available | - |