Episode 57 — Tales of the Rangers Part VII — War on the Nueces Strip

25/05/2024 27 min Episodio 58
Episode 57 — Tales of the Rangers Part VII — War on the Nueces Strip

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Episode Synopsis

Leander McNelly — a “puny” consumptive with exceptional drive and martial prowess — recruited 41 men to form a Special Force of Texas Rangers to take on rampant banditry in the Nueces Strip in South Texas in 1875. It was more a counterinsurgency mission than a law enforcement operation, and it would make him and his men Frontier Partisan legends.
 
Further reading:
Taming the Nueces Strip, by George Durham
Follow Me To Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice, by Tom Clavin
https://thoughtsfromafar.blog/2018/08/26/the-red-raid-1875/
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Music: Blue Frontier by Jim Cornelius
Graphics by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative

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