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Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
Bottom of the pile
9
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
12/100Critics
7/100Scholars
Author:
Tom Clavin
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
April 4, 2023
The true story of how Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier.
What The Reviewers Say
Clavin... knows Western history, but the story he tells here is inconclusive... and laying out the backstory for every person introduced slows the narrative repeatedly. Still, Clavin tells a good story..
The author doesn’t soft-pedal the racist ethos surrounding the Rangers, but neither does he paint a heroic portrait of the likes of Travis and Crockett or the free-shooting pacifiers of the borderlands.
Scrupulous if meandering.
