The Reckoning: The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier (American Liberty and Justice)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (595 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0896727696 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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A splendid book and a fine read . If you like tragic human history and geology intertwined and well written, get The Reckoning. You will enjoy it. --Dr. Fisher, former State Geologist of Texas. William L
History shouldn't be this much fun to read This is a book that one can approach on two levels. First, it's a thorough history of a few turbulent years in the settlement phase of a rugged part of southwest Texas, with a level of research and scholarship that makes it a great tool for historians. Second, it's a well-written and entertaining book about some incredible events that almost reads more like something Elmer Kelton would have written. It's in a time frame and a part of Texas that Kelton often used, and the stories in here are the kind of real-life events. Review of The Reckoning Eugene A. Shinn Eugene A. Shinn Bullets fly, stagecoaches robbed, and Texas Rangers battle it out with cattle rustlers and renegade Indians. Sound like a Hollywood cowboys-and-Indians movie? Yes, but this is no Hollywood script. The Reckoning is a thoroughly researched history of events and real people who lived harsh lives in central Texas on the limestone highlands called the Edwards Plateau. Surprisingly, this page-turner unfolds during a relatively short period of time between 1873 and 1886. The characters, in this case real people, are War weary. Steve Kohn said America's wild west at the personal level. A fascinating account of a part of Texas facing constant threat from Indians and outlaws and how they were reined in. I'm sure you'll like "Reckoning."I'm currently on a Texas history jag, also reading the magnificent "Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans," by TR Fehrenbach. In fact, I moved from "Lone Star" to "Reckoning" when "Lone Star" was discussing the Frontier Battalion. I'd read a positive report of "Reckoning" in a newspaper and was fortunate our library had a copy.What surprised me most in "Reckoning"
Rose shows frontier West Texas as it really was: a raw, lawless, unforgiving place and time that yielded only stubbornly to Order and its handmaiden, the Rule of Law.. They robbed stagecoaches repeatedly. They traded in border markets alongside Mexican Indian raiders, and may have participated in the brutal Dowdy massacre of 1878.Outnumbering and intimidating law-abiding settlers, the confederation took over the nascent Kimble County government in 1876. In 1873, opportunistic Anglo-Celtic cattlemen and homesteaders, protected by little other than personal firearms and their own b