{"product_id":"the-texas-rangers-and-the-mexican-revolution-the-bloodiest-decade-19101920","title":"The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade  1910-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe decade 19101920 was the bloodiest in the controversial history of one of the most famous law enforcement agencies in the worldthe Texas Rangers. Much of the bloodshed was along the thousand-mile Texas\/Mexico border because these were the years of the Mexican Revolution. Charles Harris III and Louis Sadler shed new light on this turbulent period by uncovering the clandestine role of Mexican President Venustiano Carranza in the border violence. They document two virtually unknown invasions of Texas by Mexican Army troops acting under Carranzas orders. Harris and Sadler suggest the notorious \"Plan de San Diego \" usually portrayed by historians as a plot hatched in South Texas  was actually spawned in Mexico by Carranza. This irredentist conspiracy  which called for the execution of all Anglo males sixteen and older and the establishment of a Hispanic republic  was designed to cause a race war between Hispanics and Anglos. One of Carranzas goals was to end the support being given by border residents to his rival Pancho Villa. The \"Plan de San Diego\" caused the governor of Texas to order the Texas Rangers to wipe out the insurgency along the border. This resulted in an estimated 300 Hispanics being killed by the Rangers and others without benefit of judge and jury. The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution is the first Ranger history to utilize Mexican government archives and the voluminous declassified FBI records on the Mexican Revolution. \"There is no other book that focuses on the Texas Rangers in the period 1910-1920. This will be the standard book on the Rangers for this period and probably the most thoroughly researched book on the Rangers in any period.\"--Alwyn Barr  Professor of History  Texas Tech University \"Harris and Sadler provide the first definitive evaluation of the Texas Rangers and their activities during the first and most violent decade of the Mexican Revolution  1910-1920. This is a really outstanding  important work\"--William H. Beezley  Professor of Latin American History  University of Arizona\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965324816437,"sku":"ByrdShop_0826334830","price":71.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780826334831.jpg?v=1770492940","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-texas-rangers-and-the-mexican-revolution-the-bloodiest-decade-19101920","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}