Louis R Sadler: 4 books
The Texas Rangers in Transition
From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921–1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
***Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication ***
Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III...
The Plan de San Diego
Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution. The plan called for an insurrection of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and African...
The Great Call-Up
The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete...
The Secret War in El Paso
Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Winner of the 2010 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction from Western Writers of AmericaThe Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, and volunteers, a refuge for personnel, an arena...