Author: México. Comisión Pesquisidora de la Frontera del NortePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Reports of the Committee of Investigation Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas
Author: México. Comisión Pesquisidora de la Frontera del NortePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Reports of the Committee of Investigation Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas
Author: Reports of the Committee of Investigation Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385372593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Reports of the Committee of Investigation Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas
Author: Mexico Comision Pesquisidora De La FrPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357355869
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
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Reports of the Committee of Investigation Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas, Translated from the Official Edition Made in Mexico
Author: Mexico Comision PesquisidoraPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425549220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Reports Committee of Investigation
Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHORPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331386018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Excerpt from Reports Committee of Investigation: Sent in 1873 by the Mexican Government to the Frontier of Texas The work of the Mexican border Commission has been wonderfully laborious. They visited all the towns and many ranchos not remote from the Rio Grande, all along the river on its right bank, as far up as La Resurreccion, a distance of about 450 miles. Wherever public archives could be found, they ransacked them most industriously, with a view to find some traces of the facts under investigation. They examined nearly 300 witnesses, whose testimonies, with other document ary evidence annexed to the reports, cover pages in manuscript. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
José María de Jesús Carvajal
Author: Joseph E. ChancePublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595341234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
José María de Jesús Carvajalis both a biography of a Mexican postrevolutionary and a study of the development of a new border between Mexico and the United States during the crucial decades of the early to mid–nineteenth century. The work examines the challenges faced by Carvajal, a bilingual, bicultural character in confusing times, against the historical backdrop of the history of colonial Texas and northern Mexico. Chance has chosen to focus on a political-military figure whose career stretches from the Texas Revolution to the French Intervention. Carvajal played a key role in the violent struggle between the liberal and conservative political factions that vied for control of the Republic of Mexico from 1830 to 1874. He was the leader of a mercenary army that invaded Mexico from the United States in 1851 in an unsuccessful attempt for the creation of the so-called independent Republic of the Sierra Madre. In addition, he played significant roles in the struggle for Texas Independence and formation of the ill-fated Republic of the Rio Grande; and he opposed the American occupation of northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War, the War of Reform that solidified liberal control of Mexico under the leadership of Benito Juarez, and the French Intervention into Mexico. Carvajal’s life and exploits have been largely overlooked by contemporary historians. This work sheds new light on several important chapters in the history of Texas and northern Mexico.
Texas Devils
Author: Michael L. CollinsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806185422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has been largely overlooked—until now. This engaging history pulls readers back to a chaotic time along the lower Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century. Texas Devils challenges the time-honored image of “good guys in white hats” to reveal the more complicated and sobering reality behind the Ranger Myth. Michael L. Collins demonstrates that, rather than bringing peace to the region, the Texas Rangers contributed to the violence and were often brutal in their injustices against Spanish-speaking inhabitants, who dubbed them los diablos Tejanos—the Texas devils. Collins goes beyond other, more laudatory Ranger histories to focus on the origins of the legend, casting Ranger immortals such as John Coffee “Jack” Hays, Ben McCulloch, and John S. “Rip” Ford in a new and not always flattering light. In revealing a barbaric code of conduct on the Rio Grande frontier, Collins shows that much of the Ranger Myth doesn’t hold up to close historical scrutiny. Texas Devils offers exciting true stories of the Rangers for anyone captivated by their legend, even as it provides a corrective to that legend.
A Crooked River
Author: Michael L. CollinsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806161574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of violence and lawlessness swept through the Nueces Strip and the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas. Cattle rustlers, regular troops, and Texas Rangers, as well as Civil War deserters and other characters of questionable reputation, clashed with Mexicans, Germans, and Indians over unionism, race, livestock, land, and national sovereignty, among other issues. In A Crooked River, Michael L. Collins presents a rousing narrative of these events that reflects perspectives of people on both sides of the Rio Grande. Retracing a path first opened by historian Walter Prescott Webb, A Crooked River reveals parts of the tale that Webb never told. Collins brings a cross-cultural perspective to the role of the Texas Rangers in the continuing strife along the border during the late nineteenth century. He draws on many rare and obscure sources to chronicle the incidents of the period, bringing unprecedented depth and detail to such episodes as the “skinning wars,” the raids on El Remolino and Las Cuevas, and the attack on Nuecestown. Along the way, he dispels many entrenched legends of Texas history—in particular, the long-held belief that almost all of the era’s cattle thieves were Mexican. A balanced and thorough reevaluation, A Crooked River adds a new dimension to the history of the racial and cultural conflict that defined the border region and that still echoes today.
Rebellious Ranger
Author: William J. HughesPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806110844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Biography of the Texan pioneer, who during his lifetime, was a practicing physician, adjutant in the Texas Rangers, newspaper editor, explorer, surveyor, superintendent of the state Deaf and Dumb School, state senator, and held a variety of political and honorary positions.