The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution : the bloodiest decade, 1910-1920 / Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, Description: xiv, 673 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0826334830
  • 9780826334831
  • 9780826334848
  • 0826334849
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution.; Online version:: Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution.DDC classification:
  • 972.08/16 22
LOC classification:
  • F391 .H28 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
The Texas State Ranger Force -- On the defensive -- The Colquitt years, 1911-1915 -- Revolution in Mexico -- Enforcing neutrality -- The revolution intensifies -- International complications -- The Ferguson years, 1915-1917 -- Ferguson Rangers -- The Plan de San Diego -- The Bandit War (July-August) -- The Bandit War (September-October) -- The Plan de San Diego resurfaces -- The Hobby years, 1917-1921 -- World War -- Wartime Rangers -- More Wartime Rangers -- Hanson's empire -- Postwar problems -- The investigation -- Aftermath -- Peace on the border -- Appendix: The Texas Rangers, 1910-1921.
Summary: The Decade 1910-1920 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 troops acting under Carranza's 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 Carranza's 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 578-652) and index.

The Texas State Ranger Force -- On the defensive -- The Colquitt years, 1911-1915 -- Revolution in Mexico -- Enforcing neutrality -- The revolution intensifies -- International complications -- The Ferguson years, 1915-1917 -- Ferguson Rangers -- The Plan de San Diego -- The Bandit War (July-August) -- The Bandit War (September-October) -- The Plan de San Diego resurfaces -- The Hobby years, 1917-1921 -- World War -- Wartime Rangers -- More Wartime Rangers -- Hanson's empire -- Postwar problems -- The investigation -- Aftermath -- Peace on the border -- Appendix: The Texas Rangers, 1910-1921.

The Decade 1910-1920 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 troops acting under Carranza's 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 Carranza's 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.

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