Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

by Glen Sample Ely and James Bailey Blackshear

A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock.

In 1862, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806175605
• ISBN13: 9780806175607
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 9.2"