This third volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on the 
evolution of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in Texas during 
the years 1840 and 1841. Comanche Indians were the leading rival 
to the pioneers during this period. Peace negotiations in San 
Antonio collapsed during the Council House Fight, prompting what 
would become known as the "Great Comanche Raid" in the summer 
of 1840.

    Stephen L. Moore covers the resulting Battle of Plum Creek and 
other engagements in new detail. Rangers, militiamen, and volunteers 
made offensive sweeps into West Texas and the Cross Timbers area 
of present Dallas-Fort Worth. During this time Texas' Frontier 
Regiment built a great military road, roughly parallel to modern 
Interstate 35. Moore also shows how the Colt repeating pistol came 
into use by Texas Rangers. Finally, he sets the record straight on 
the battles of the legendary Captain Jack Hays.

    Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-
person accounts, Moore provides a clear view of life as a frontier 
fighter in the Republic of Texas. The reader will find herein 
numerous and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, as well as 
casualty lists and a compilation of 1841 rangers and minutemen. 
For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the 
Savage Frontier series is an indispensable resource on early 
nineteenth-century Texas frontier warfare.

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STEPHEN L. MOORE is a sixth-generation Texan and author of 
Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 
Volume I, 1835–1837 and Volume II, 1838–1839. He is also the 
author of Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the 
Texas Independence Campaign and Taming Texas: Captain 
William T. Sadler's Lone Star Service. He lives in Lantana, Texas.



What people are saying about this book

"Moore has done an extraordinary job of exhaustively researching his 
subject."—Donaly Brice, author of The Great Comanche Raid