{"product_id":"confederates-and-comancheros-skullduggery-and-double-dealing-in-the-texas-new-mexico-borderlands-9780806175607","title":"Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands","description":"A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1862, the Confederates abandoned New Mexico Territory and Texas west of the Pecos River, fully expecting to return someday. Meanwhile, administered by Union troops under martial law, the region became a hotbed of Rebel exiles and spies, who gathered intelligence, disrupted federal supply lines, and plotted to retake the Southwest. Using a treasure trove of previously unexplored documents, authors James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely trace the complicated network of relationships that drew both Texas cattlemen and Comancheros into these borderlands, revealing the urban elite who were heavily involved in both the legal and illegal transactions that fueled the region's economy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfederates and Comancheros\u003c\/i\u003e deftly weaves a complex tale of Texan overreach and New Mexican resistance, explores cattle drives and cattle rustling, and details shady government contracts and bloody frontier justice. Peopled with Rebels and bluecoats, Comanches and Comancheros, Texas cattlemen and New Mexican merchants, opportunistic Indian agents and Anglo arms dealers, this book illustrates how central these contested borderlands were to the history of the American West. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlackshear, James Bailey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJames Bailey Blackshear\u003c\/b\u003e is an adjunct professor of history at the University of North Texas at Dallas, and the author of \u003ci\u003eHonor and Defiance: A History of the Las Vegas Land Grant in New Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFort Bascom: Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEly, Glen Sample:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eGlen Sample Ely\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMurder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381153992978,"sku":"9780806175607","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bd39b1bf-d270-4474-922a-aa97c315d4e2.jpg?v=1728694722","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/confederates-and-comancheros-skullduggery-and-double-dealing-in-the-texas-new-mexico-borderlands-9780806175607","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}