Contents

Author¿s Note
Prologue

Act I: Colonists and Captains
Chapter 1: `Texian Devils!¿
Chapter 2: Luckless Liberators
Chapter 3: The Long Republic
Chapter 4: A Connecticut Yankee
Chapter 5: The Empresario
Chapter 6: The `Magna Cartä
Chapter 7: An Inkling of Independence
Chapter 8: Unlearned Lessons
Chapter 9: Austin Behind Bars
Chapter 10: `Come To Our Aid¿
Chapter 11: `How Do You Like That Answer?¿
Chapter 12: Looting and Shouting
Chapter 13: `Hurry On!¿
Chapter 14: `Victory Purchased with Blood¿
Chapter 15: Take the Fight South
Chapter 16: From Bad to Worse
Chapter 17: The Finest Company
Chapter 18: `My Men Evinced No Dismay¿
Chapter 19: `Boys, Fight To the Last!¿
Chapter 20: Invading Comancheria

Act II: Lone Star Lawman
Chapter 21: `Walking Whiskey Keg¿
Chapter 22: Gettysburg of the West
Chapter 23: `Coolness and Courage¿
Chapter 24: Frontier Forces
Chapter 25: `True To His Colors¿
Chapter 26: Farmer and Father
Chapter 27: No Book To Stop This Bullet
Chapter 28: Follow the Money
Chapter 29: Another Long and Bloody War
Chapter 30: Quick With a Gun
Chapter 31: `A Perfect Reign of Terror¿
Chapter 32: The Peacekeepers
Chapter 33: Reporters and Rangers

ACT III: Their Backs to the River
Chapter 34: Patrolling the Nueces Strip
Chapter 35: `You Must Be the Judge¿
Chapter 36: Emperor McNelly
Chapter 37: `Got You Now!¿
Chapter 38: `Master of the Situation¿
Chapter 39: `The Jaws of Death¿
Chapter 40: `Kill All You See¿
Chapter 41: Rio Grande Standoff
Chapter 42: `Death Squad¿
Chapter 44: Capt. McNelly Goes to Washington
Chapter 45: `This Rash Young Man¿
Chapter 46: `Two Best Pistol Fighters in Texas¿
Chapter 47: The New Lieutenant
Chapter 48: `The Brave Who Sink to Rest¿

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index

Follow Me to Hell

McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice