Savage frontier : rangers, riflemen, and Indian wars in Texas Vol. IV 1842-1845
Record details
- ISBN: 1574413473
- ISBN: 9781574413472
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 263 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Denton : University of North Texas Press, ©2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Vasquez Incursion -- New Invasion of Texas -- 2. Spring and Summer Ranger Actions -- Indian Peace Talks of 1842 -- Gilleland Family Massacre -- Captain Hays' Guadalupe River Battle -- Ranger Life -- Battle of Lipantitlan -- Ranger Actions: Summer 1842 -- Comanche Empire -- 3. Woll Seizes Bexar -- 4. Salado Creek Battle: "Give Them Hell!" -- "I Would Rather Die Than Retreat" -- 5. Hondo Creek Skirmish -- Hays Takes Cannon at Hondo Creek -- 6. Somervell and Mier Expeditions -- Somervell Expedition -- Battle of Mier -- Archives War -- 7. "Active, Vigilant and Efficient" -- Frontier Depredations of 1843 -- Snively Expedition -- Tawakoni Creek and Bird's Fort Treaties -- Capt. Hays' 1843 Actions -- 8. Deadly Colts on Walker's Creek -- Jack Hays' 1844 Ranging Company -- Other 1844 Frontier Fights -- 9. "I Laid Down to Die" -- Ambush of Hays' Rangers -- Regulator-Moderator War -- Peace Talks Renew at Tawakoni Creek -- 10. 1845 County Ranging Companies -- First Rangers of Dallas -- 11. Rangers in Federal Service -- Major Hays' Ranger Battalion -- "The Republic of Texas is No More" -- 12. Afterword. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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