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Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920

Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920

Harris, Charles H.
Sadler, Louis R.

Paperback

General World HistoryMexican HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 0826334849
ISBN13: 9780826334848
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Mar 1 2007
Pages: 687
Weight: 2.57
Height: 1.55 Width: 7.10 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

The decade 1910-1920 was the bloodiest in the controversial history of one of the most famous law enforcement agencies in the world--the Texas Rangers. Much of the bloodshed was along the thousand-mile Texas/Mexico border because these were the years of the Mexican Revolution.

Charles Harris III and Louis Sadler shed new light on this turbulent period by uncovering the clandestine role of Mexican President Venustiano Carranza in the border violence. They document two virtually unknown invasions of Texas by Mexican Army troops acting under Carranza's orders. Harris and Sadler suggest the notorious Plan de San Diego, usually portrayed by historians as a plot hatched in South Texas, was actually spawned in Mexico by Carranza. This irredentist conspiracy, which called for the execution of all Anglo males sixteen and older and the establishment of a Hispanic republic, was designed to cause a race war between Hispanics and Anglos. One of Carranza's goals was to end the support being given by border residents to his rival Pancho Villa.

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