A detailed account of the role of the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War.

The Great Frontier represents a daring attempt to interpret the settlement of the American West in the global context of the expansion of European civilization between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. According to Webb's boom hypothesis, the expansion of Europe's Great Frontier into the Western Hemisphere energized a static society and made possible the development of such fundamental institutions of the modern era as individualism, capitalism,...

In the years following the Cival War thousands of mounted raiders, some of them Anglo-Americans, crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder and rape.