Download Savage Frontier Volume IV: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1842-1845 AudioBook Free
This fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series completes the history of the Tx Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Tx era. During this period of your time, fabled Captain John Caffeine Hays and his small strap of Rangers were usually the only government-authorized frontier fighters applied to keep the peace. This volume includes the resulting struggle at Salado Creek, the defeat of Dawson's men, and a skirmish at Hondo Creek near San Antonio. Tx Rangers also performed a role in the ill-fated Somervell and Mier expeditions. By 1844, Captain Hays' Rangers possessed forever changed the nature of frontier warfare with the use of the Colt five-shooter repeating pistol. For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Tx, the Savage Frontier series can be an indispensable reference on early 19th-century Tx frontier warfare. The book is publicized by School of North Tx Press.
