Blackshear James Bailey and Glen Sample Ely (1 results)

[TEXAS] [NEW MEXICO]. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, ix [1], 276 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated from photographs, portraits, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. 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. A complex tale of Texan overreach and New Mexican resistance, explores cattle drives and cattle rustling, and details shady government contracts and bloody frontier justice. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.…