In the early 1870s, the Horrell brothers were involved in the murder of a sheriff, the murders of State Police officers, a jailbreak, and a bloody episode known as the Horrell War in New Mexico before the infamous Lincoln County War. In 1877, they become embroiled in a deadly feud with the Higgins clan until Major John B. Jones dreams up a creative solution. Meanwhile, during the early stages of the problems with the Horrell brothers, a former captain of the State Police, Leander McNelly, creates a militia unit to try to stop the notoriously bloody Sutton-Taylor feud in South Texas.

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“The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox

“The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey

“Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley

“The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb

“Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little

“Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham

“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson

“Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley

“Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach

“The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens

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