Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers

by George Durham and Clyde Wantland

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292780486
• ISBN13: 9780292780484
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

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This book tells the story of Captain Leander McNelly and his Texas Rangers' exploits in the early Reconstruction Era of Texas. It is filled with stories of outlaws and raiders and the men who brought them to justice the McNelly way. I guarantee you are gonna love this book. It is an AWESOME! read.