Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 316 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

1. "This history pulls readers back to a chaotic time along the lower Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century to reexamine the activities of Texas partisans. 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. He describes the consequences of Ranger forays on both sides of the Rio Grande for U.S.-Mexican relations and uncovers connections between state Ranger forces and filibustering expeditions south of the border."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century
2. Texas > Militia > History > 19th century
3. Texas, South > Relations > Mexico
4. Frontier and pioneer life > Texas > Lower Rio Grande Valley
5. Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) > History > 19th century
6. Mexico > Relations > Texas, South
7. Mexicans > Texas > Lower Rio Grande Valley > History > 19th century
8. Texas Rangers History > 19th century
9. Frontier and pioneer life > Texas, South
10. Culture conflict > Texas > Lower Rio Grande Valley > History > 19th century

Contents

1. 1. The Rangers -- 2. The River -- 3. The Renegades -- 4. The Rubicon -- 5. The Red Robber -- 6. The Regulars -- 7. The Rio Bravo -- 8. The Colonel -- 9. The Rebels -- 10. Requiem.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index.