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The thought of Tx was forged in the crucible of frontier warfare between 1822 and 1865, when Anglo-Americans designed to mounted fight north of the Rio Grande. This cavalry-centric world, which had long been the website of Plains Indians and the Spanish Empire, compelled an adaptive martial custom that shaped early Lone Star culture. Beginning with initial tactical creativity in Spanish Tejas and culminating with considerable mobilization for the Civil War, Texas culture developed a unique way of conflict defined by armed horsemanship, volunteer militancy, and short-term mobilization as it grappled with both tribal and international opponents. Drawing upon military services reports, individuals' memoirs, and federal government documents, cavalry official Nathan A. Jennings analyzes the evolution of Texan militarism from tribal clashes of colonial Tejas, territorial wars of the Tx Republic, the Mexican-American War, border issues of antebellum Tx, and the cataclysmic Civil War. In each issue Texan volunteers solved the call to arms with marked enthusiasm for mounted fight. Operating for the Lone Legend explores this societal passion - with focus on the historic go up of the Tx Rangers - through unflinching study of territorial competition with Comanches, Mexicans, and Unionists. Even while statesmen Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston emerged as influential proper leaders, captains like Edward Burleson, John Caffeine Hays, and John Salmon Ford accomplished fame for tactical success.
