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Taming the Nueces Strip

The Story of McNelly's Rangers

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Taming the Nueces Strip

By: George Durham, Clyde Wantland
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
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Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, and rape. Their main objective? To steal cattle, which they herded back across the Rio Grande to sell. Honest citizens found it almost impossible to live in the Nueces Strip.

In desperation, the governor of Texas called on an extraordinary man, Captain Leander M. McNelly, to take command of a Ranger company and stop these border bandits. One of McNelly's recruits for this task was George Durham, a Georgia farmboy in his teens when he joined the "Little McNellys", as the Captain's band called themselves. More than half a century later, it was George Durham, the last surviving "McNelly Ranger", who recounted the exciting tale of taming the Nueces Strip to San Antonio writer Clyde Wantland.

In Durham's account, those long-ago days are brought vividly back to life. Once again the daring McNelly leads his courageous band across Southwest Texas to victories against incredible odds. With a boldness that overcame their dismayingly small number, the McNellys succeeded in bringing law and order to the untamed Nueces Strip - succeeded so well that they antagonized certain "upright" citizens who had been pocketing surreptitious dollars from the bandits' operations.

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This really gives you a look into the era and the time of Mcnelly. What an amazing piece of historical writing.

This is great

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Great tx ranger history. Easy to listen and well. Good for kids. Wish it was longer

Rangers

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A realistic "Must Read" historic account for any true aficionados of Texas Ranger/South Texas history !!!

A Narration Second Only to a Live Performance !!!

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Exciting, authentic history. Narrator was good as well. Now I need six more words.

Informative History

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I had no trouble listening to this story all in one sitting and could hardly turn it off when I needed to. It is a well-written first-hand account of exciting events in a young man's life that were also significant events in the early history of Texas. I found this better than a Western novel.

True History Better Than Fiction

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Wonderful story well written, the narrator butchers a lot of the pronunciations of local names, but if you can get over that then it is well worth the listen!!

Great story

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This book had all the things I love: first person point of view of an important participant, Texas characters, locations, and events. The colloquialisms were especially good and the narrator elevated the material. The story is there... just no Larry McMurtry. I never felt the thrill of the action. The aw shucks naivete of the narrator was charming but the other characters felt two-dimensional.

Texas History

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The narrator was fantastic. The story always seemed to be going somewhere, but doesn’t materialize with much excitement. It does depict a very tough existence.

Great narration

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