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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452354803321

Autore

Moore Stephen L

Titolo

Savage Frontier [[electronic resource] ] : Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Denton, : University of North Texas Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-93345-3

9786610933457

1-57441-398-8

1-4337-1036-6

1-4294-6915-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Savage Frontier, 2

Disciplina

976.404

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- History

Indians of North America -- Texas -- Government relations

Indians of North America -- Wars -- Texas

Texas -- Politics and government -- 1836-1846

Texas Rangers -- History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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 CoĢrdova 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.