Taming The Nueces Strip. The Story Of Mcnelly's Rangers

GEORGE DURHAM

Publication: University of Texas Press, 1962, Austin

First Edition. Boards. xx. 178pp. Illustrated. Map. Foreword by Walter Prescott Webb. This account "as told to Clyde Wantland." Excellent account of the experiences of the Texas Rangers, led by Captain Leander H. McNelly, in the bandit-plagued area between the Nieces and Rio Grande rivers in Southwest Texas. "Gives one of the best accounts of the life and work of McNelly and his rangers and corrects some of the errors made by N. A. Jennings."-Ramon Adams. A fine, bright copy in dust jacket with half-inch closed-tear to top edge of back panel and very slight rubbing to extremities of spine.