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Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, and rape. Their main objective? To steal cattle, which they herded back across the Rio Grande to sell. Honest citizens found it almost impossible to live in the Nueces Strip. In desperation, the governor of Texas called on an extraordinary man, Captain Leander M. McNelly, to take command of a Ranger company and stop these border bandits. One of McNelly's recruits for this task was George Durham, a Georgia farmboy in his teens when he joined the'Little McNellys,'as the Captain's band called themselves. More than half a century later, it was George Durham, the last surviving'McNelly Ranger,'who recounted the exciting tale of taming the Nueces Strip to San Antonio writer Clyde Wantland. In Durham's account, those long-ago days are brought vividly back to life. Once again the daring McNelly leads his courageous band across Southwest Texas to victories against incredible odds. With a boldness th

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Author

George Durham, W. Webb, Clyde Wantland

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

1962

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292733961

Category

history

Subjects

True Crime, History, Social Science

Rating

4.15 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14