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Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:James Bailey Blackshear, Glen Sample ElyPublish date:2021-09-30Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806175607ISBN-10:806175605UPC:9780806175607Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), State & Local, United StatesSize:9.20 x 8.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC161R8J5M
A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock.

In 1862, the Confederates abandoned New Mexico Territory and Texas west of the Pecos River, fully expecting to return someday. Meanwhile, administered by Union troops under martial law, the region became a hotbed of Rebel exiles and spies, who gathered intelligence, disrupted federal supply lines, and plotted to retake the Southwest. Using a treasure trove of previously unexplored documents, authors James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely trace the complicated network of relationships that drew both Texas cattlemen and Comancheros into these borderlands, revealing the urban elite who were heavily involved in both the legal and illegal transactions that fueled the region's economy.

Confederates and Comancheros deftly weaves a complex tale of Texan overreach and New Mexican resistance, explores cattle drives and cattle rustling, and details shady government contracts and bloody frontier justice. Peopled with Rebels and bluecoats, Comanches and Comancheros, Texas cattlemen and New Mexican merchants, opportunistic Indian agents and Anglo arms dealers, this book illustrates how central these contested borderlands were to the history of the American West.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806175607ISBN-10:806175605UPC:9780806175607Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), State & Local, United StatesSize:9.20 x 8.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC161R8J5M
Blackshear, James Bailey: - James Bailey Blackshear is an adjunct professor of history at the University of North Texas at Dallas, and the author of Honor and Defiance: A History of the Las Vegas Land Grant in New Mexico and Fort Bascom: Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley.Ely, Glen Sample: - Glen Sample Ely is the award-winning author of The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 and Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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