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An account of the feuds in the Redlands area of Texas, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century, in which men or families sought to vindicate their honor with guns.

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The days after the Civil War were tempestuous times in Texas. The Six-Shooter was both judge and jury as lawlessness ran rampant. Men with bodies and minds tattered by war, fortunes wasted in four years of desperation tried to rebuild their lives from a foundation of ashes. DeWitt County, Texas especially tasted the bitter dredges of this desolation and provided the backdrop for the "Sutton-Taylor Feud." Although the feud, now famous in the annals...

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.

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