Charles H Harris Iii: 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...
A Mexican Family Empire
The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate—the hacienda. In Mexico, the latifundio, an estate usually composed of two or more haciendas, dominated the social and economic structure of the country for four hundred years. A Mexican...