TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 6 | “McNelly’s Rangers”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In November 1875, Captain Leander McNelly makes his most famous and controversial move: he leads his militia company into Mexico and attacks two villages to recover stolen cattle. His actions provoke a standoff with Mexican officials and consternation from his superiors, but his men love his bold strategy. After the events known as the Las Cuevas War, McNelly’s time in command draws to a close. But his lieutenant helps end the Sutton-Taylor feud, and his former sergeant leads the arrest of the infamous outlaw, John Wesley Hardin. 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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0:18.0	UK residents, T's and C supply. Please apply. In the summer of 1875, around the same time of McNellie's Palo Alto fight on June 12th.
0:43.0	Events were in motion all over the West that would soon have major impacts on American history.
0:49.0	On June 2nd, 10 days before the Palo Alto fight, Kwanah Parker and the final band of free
0:55.6	Comanche surrendered to the U.S. Army. A year earlier, in August and September 1874,
1:02.1	the Army had conducted a campaign against the Comanche that
1:05.6	would be called the Red River War.
1:08.2	The Army hadn't captured Parker, but after a long hard winter, Parker's fight was done.
1:14.0	With Parker's surrender, all the tribes of the Southern Plains had submitted to life on reservations.
1:20.0	But trouble was slowly brewing on the Northern Plains.
1:24.0	At the same time the Army was beginning the Red River War in Texas,
1:28.0	Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer
1:31.0	was leading an expedition into the Black Hills.
1:35.0	The expedition officially confirmed the existence of gold in the hills, which everyone knew was
1:40.1	there anyway.
1:41.8	A year later, in May of 1875, a month before Kwanap Parker
1:46.1	surrendered and McNellie's Rangers fought bandits at Palo Alto, Lakota Chief's
1:51.4	Red Cloud and Spotted Tail traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Ulysses S. Grant.
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