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second volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses
on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas
Republic, 1838 and 1839.
By early 1838,
the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether.
Stephen L. Moore shows how the major general of the new Texas
Militia worked around legal constraints in order to keep mounted
rangers in service. Expeditions against Indians during 1838
and 1839 were frequent, conducted by militiamen, rangers,
cavalry, civilian volunteer groups and the new Frontier Regiment
of the Texas Army. From the Surveyors' Fight to the Battle
of Brushy Creek, each engagement is covered in new detail.
The volume concludes with the Cherokee War of 1839, which
saw the assembly of more Texas troops than had engaged the
Mexican army at San Jacinto. Moore fully covers the failed
peace negotiations, the role of the Texas Rangers in this
campaign, and the last stand of heroic Chief Bowles.
Through extensive
use of primary military documents and first-person accounts,
Moore provides a clear view of life as a frontier fighter
in the Republic of Texas. The reader will find herein numerous
and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, as well as a complete
list of Texan casualties of the frontier Indian wars from
1835 through 1839.
For the exacting
historian or genealogist of early Texas, the Savage Frontier
series will be an indispensable resource on early nineteenth-century
Texas frontier violence.
"Anyone with an interest in the Texas Republic, or in
the nature of frontier warfare in the early nineteenth century,
would want to have this book on the shelf. It will also be
a gold mine for Texas genealogists."
— James E. Crisp, author of Sleuthing the Alamo
Stephen L. Moore is a sixth-generation Texan
and author of Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and
Indian Wars in Texas, Volume I, 1835-1837 . He is also
the author of Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto
and the Texas Independence Campaign and Taming Texas:
Captain William T. Sadler's Lone Star Service. He lives
in Lantana, Texas.
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