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James Bailey Blackshear, Associate Faculty Professor of
History at Collin College in Plano, Texas, is the author of Honor
and Defiance: A History of the Las Vegas Land Grant in New
Mexico.
Glen Sample Ely is the award-winning author of The Texas
Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 and Where the
West Begins: Debating Texas Identity.
"James Blackshear and Glen Ely's collaboration on the complicated
struggle for control of the Texas-New Mexico borderlands in the
Civil War era does much to illuminate the complex webs of conflict
and cooperation among the various groups living on and around the
Llano Estacado. Part economic history, part military history, and
part ethnography, the work seeks to restore the Comancheros,
largely Hispanic merchants and herders who traded extensively with
the Comanche empire, to their rightful place in history...anyone
interested in the far reaches of the Civil War in the Texas-New
Mexico borderlands will benefit from a careful reading of
Confederates and Comancheros. Both authors are to be commended for
using their extensive expertise in the region to draw back the
curtain on the economic activity that motivated many of the actions
and reactions in the theater. The book further proves that the
Civil War and the subsequent conquest of the American West are two
acts that cannot be disentangled in the historical record, and will
remain forever linked in history just as strongly as the disparate
communities the enterprising Comancheros bound together."--H-Net
Reviews
"Comancheros, the New Mexico merchants who traded, often illegally
with Comanches and other Southern Plains nations, have been highly
fictionalized over the years. But. James Bailey Blackshear and Glen
Sample Ely, historians knowns for their works about frontier Texas
and New Mexico, correct that oversight and in the process deliver a
highly readable and detailed look at the mostly illicit trade. With
impeccable scholarship, the authors focus on the Civil War era and
provide a lively look at assorted characters, few of them
completely reputable, and put the dealings, shootings, legal
procedures, raids, spies, killings and cattle drives in
perspective. Along the way, Blackshear and Ely also correct some
longstanding myths. Fascinating and a whole lot of fun to read.
"--Western Writers of America, The Roundup
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