Download Savage Frontier Volume 3: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars by Stephen L. Moore PDF

By Stephen L. Moore

This 3rd quantity of the Savage Frontier sequence specializes in the evolution of the Texas Rangers and frontier war in Texas throughout the years 1840 and 1841. Comanche Indians have been the top rival to the pioneers in this interval. Peace negotiations in San Antonio collapsed in the course of the Council apartment struggle, prompting what may turn into referred to as the good Comanche Raid in the summertime of 1840. Stephen L. Moore covers the ensuing conflict of Plum Creek and different engagements in new aspect. Rangers, militiamen, and volunteers made offensive sweeps into West Texas and the go Timbers sector of current Dallas-Fort worthy. in this time Texass Frontier Regiment outfitted a good army highway, approximately parallel to trendy Interstate 35. Moore additionally indicates how the Colt repeating pistol got here into use via Texas Rangers. ultimately, he units the checklist immediately at the battles of the mythical Captain Jack Hays. via huge use of fundamental army records and first-person debts, Moore presents a transparent view of lifestyles as a frontier fighter within the Republic of Texas. The reader will locate herein a variety of and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, in addition to casualty lists and a compilation of 1841 rangers and minutemen. For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the Savage Frontier sequence is an crucial source on early nineteenth-century Texas frontier warfare.

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