The feuds raging in Texas in the nineteenth century bound in acrimony not only families but special-interest groups that, feeling intolerably wronged, sought "extralegal justice" when they believed the law would give them no satisfaction. In "I'll Die Before I'll Run" the prominent historian C. L. Sonnichsen leaves no doubt that bad blood so often turned into bloody feuds in Texas because there the folk law of the frontier was reinforced by the unwritten code of honor of the South, and because everybody in Texas went armed. ...
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The feuds raging in Texas in the nineteenth century bound in acrimony not only families but special-interest groups that, feeling intolerably wronged, sought "extralegal justice" when they believed the law would give them no satisfaction. In "I'll Die Before I'll Run" the prominent historian C. L. Sonnichsen leaves no doubt that bad blood so often turned into bloody feuds in Texas because there the folk law of the frontier was reinforced by the unwritten code of honor of the South, and because everybody in Texas went armed. Although the Regulators and Moderators warred in eastern Texas in the 1840s, the really big feuds were ignited by the Civil War and flamed until late in the century, when the Texas Rangers began to put them out. In rich circumstantial detail Sonnichsen describes the most famous of the conflagrations stretching from the "sorrowful sixties" to the "nervous nineties."
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Cisneros, Jose. VG/Good+ in Good+ jacket. Light foxing on page edges, owner name on endpaper. Dustjacket has light edgewear and a 1-inch closed tear on back panel. Dj in protective mylar sleeve. 371 pages. This is the 1962 expanded version of the 1951 edition. 16 pages pages of b/w photos, with pen & ink drawings by Jose Cisneros. Info on the Taylor-Sutton Feud, the Lee-Peacock Feud, the San Saba Mob, the Jaybird-Woodpecker Feud, and others. 23 pages of sources & notes, and 13-page index. This is the 1962 expanded version of the 1951 edition. ZSBH E2437.
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