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Letters From Your Northern Neighbors Who Are Now Satisfied And Prosperous Lower Rio Grande Valley Farmers [Brochure], Oliver-Jackson Investment Company (Kansas City, Mo)

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Brochure published by Oliver-Jackson Investment Company featuring "Letters from Your Northern Neighbors Who Are Now Satisfied and Prosperous Lower Rio Grande Valley Farmers."

Proceedings Of The Joint Committee Of The Senate And The House In The Investigation Of The Texas State Ranger Force, Volume I, J. T. (Jose Tomas) Canales, William Madison Tidwell, Robert Lee Williford, Dan Scott Mcmillin, Paul Dewitt Page, William Harrison Bledsoe

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From the Texas State Library and Archives Commission Rangers and Outlaws web page:

"Raids and cattle theft had been a sporadic problem along the Mexican border for decades, but in 1915, revolutionaries began to target symbols of American oppression for destruction, including farms, irrigation systems, and railroad lines. Local law enforcement could not cope with the escalating lawlessness. The Texas governor dispatched the Texas Rangers to restore order and chase the revolutionaries back to the Mexican side of the line. (The unrest spanned the terms of three governors: Oscar Colquitt, James E. "Pa" Ferguson, and William Hobby.) As the violence …

Proceedings Of The Joint Committee Of The Senate And The House In The Investigation Of The Texas State Ranger Force, Volume Ii, J. T. (Jose Tomas) Canales, William Madison Tidwell, Robert Lee Williford, Dan Scott Mcmillin, Paul Dewitt Page, William Harrison Bledsoe

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Volume 3 can be located here.