TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 5 | “McNelly On The Border”

Legends of the Old West

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In South Texas, in an area known as the Nueces Strip, cattle rustling is a huge problem and it comes with an additional layer of complication: many of the rustlers are from Mexico. They ride across the border, steal Texas cattle, and drive the cattle to Mexico. In 1875, Captain Leander McNelly and his militia company are dispatched to the Rio Grande Valley to stop the rustlers from Mexico. Shortly after they arrive, they find themselves in a pivotal fight on the Palo Alto prairie. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY “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 Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Captain Leander McNellie's original company of the Washington County Volunteer Militia
0:25.2	mustered out of service March 31st, 1875. The men who wanted to continue service
0:31.8	were mustered back in the very next day.
0:35.1	Little is known of McNellie's time between November 1874, when he ended his work in
0:40.6	DeWitt County during the Sutton Taylor feud and March 1875 when his company
0:46.1	officially mustered out. But starting April 1st, 1875, his orders were to hurry to South Texas to bring some semblance of peace to the Rio Grande
0:56.4	Valley.
0:57.7	And while he and his men were off on that mission, the sudden Taylor feud resumed in DeWitt County.
1:04.2	It was clearly winding down, but it wasn't done yet.
1:08.0	In March 1874, after Jim Taylor and his cousin Bill Taylor murdered William Sutton, the former deputy sheriff
1:15.6	of DeWitt County and one of the leaders of the Sutton faction, murder warrants were sworn
1:21.0	out for the killers.
1:23.2	Rubin Brown was the town marshal of Quaro in DeWitt County.
1:28.0	He was a sudden ally, and he caught Bill Taylor three weeks after the murders.
1:33.2	He deposited Bill in jail in the town of Indianaola on the Gulf Coast, where the murders had
1:38.4	happened.
1:40.3	Indianola was a small community on Matagorda Bay, just a few miles from the current city of Port
1:45.4	Lavaca. A year and a half after Bill was caught and sent to jail, the town of
1:50.6	Indianapolis was essentially wiped off the map by a hurricane.
1:55.0	It was reported that three quarters of the buildings were destroyed
1:58.5	and 176 people were killed.
2:01.8	The town was never rebuilt and today there's just a historical
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