Texas Devils Audiobook by Michael L. Collins

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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://audiobookzap.com/free Title: Texas Devils Subtitle: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861 Categories: America, Biography, History, Law, United States of America Author: Michael L. Collins Narrator: Dale M. Wilcox Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Release date: 07-14-2016 Language: English Summary: Reconsidering the myth of good guys in white hats. The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has been largely overlooked - until now. This engaging history pulls listeners back to a chaotic time along the lower Rio Grande in the mid-19th century. Texas Devils challenges the time-honored image of "good guys in white hats" to reveal the more complicated and sobering reality behind the Ranger Myth. Michael L. Collins demonstrates that, rather than bringing peace to the region, the Texas Rangers contributed to the violence and were often brutal in their injustices against Spanish-speaking inhabitants, who dubbed them los diablos Tejanos - the Texas devils. Collins goes beyond other, more laudatory Ranger histories to focus on the origins of the legend, casting Ranger immortals such as John Coffee "Jack" Hays, Ben McCulloch, and John S.

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