Description: Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution : The Bloodiest Decade, 1, Paperback by Harris, Charles H.; Sadler, Louis R., ISBN 0826334849, ISBN-13 9780826334848, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
The decade 1 was the bloodiest in the controversial history of one of the most famous law enforcement agencies in the world--the Texas Rangers. Much of the bloodshed was along the thousand-mile Texas/Mexico border because these were the years of the Mexican Revolution.
Charles Harris III and Louis Sadler shed new light on this turbulent period by uncovering the clandestine role of Mexican President Venustiano Carranza in the border violence. They document two virtually unknown invasions of Texas by Mexican Army troops acting under Carranzas orders. Harris and Sadler suggest the notorious "Plan de San Diego," usually portrayed by historians as a plot hatched in South Texas, was actually spawned in Mexico by Carranza. This irredentist conspiracy, which called for the execution of all Anglo males sixteen and older and the establishment of a Hispanic republic, was designed to cause a race war between Hispanics and Anglos. One of Carranzas goals was to end the support being given by border residents to his rival Pancho Villa.
The "Plan de San Diego" caused the governor of Texas to order the Texas Rangers to wipe out the insurgency along the border. This resulted in an estimated 300 Hispanics being killed by the Rangers and others without benefit of judge and jury.
The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution is the first Ranger history to utilize Mexican government archives and the voluminous declassified FBI records on the Mexican Revolution.
"There is no other book that focuses on the Texas Rangers in the period 1. This will be the standard book on the Rangers for this period and probably the most thoroughly researched book on the Rangers in any period."--Alwyn Barr, Professor of History, Texas Tech University
"Harris and Sadler provide the first definitive evaluation of the Texas Rangers and their activities during the first and most violent decade of the Mexican Revolution, 1. This is a really outstanding, important work"--William H. Beezley, Professor of Latin American History, University of Arizona
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Language: English
Topic: Latin America / Mexico, Military / United States, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), History
Author: Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Illustrator: Yes
Publication Year: 2007
Format: Trade Paperback
Book Title: Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution : the Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920
Item Height: 1.5in
Item Length: 10in
Item Width: 7.1in
Item Weight: 41.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 687 Pages
