Border Bandits, Border Raids

By: W. C. Jameson

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Border Bandits is an account of the many, many stories of back-and-forth skirmishes between the Mexicans and Texans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There practically wasn't a border, which caused a lot of problems and thievery between the two countries. These 17 tales in this book re-create border raids that originated from both sides of the fluid and much contested line and tells the stories of colorful characters - Mexican and American - that have since secured their place in history.

©2017 W. C. Jameson (P)2017 Recorded Books

This Book was awesome!

Although it’s fairly short, the amount of detail regarding the unofficial and fairly well swept away “border war” between the US and Mexico was fascinating. Most people think of the surrender of Geronimo in the late 1880s as the official end of the “Wild West” frontier era. However this book illustrates the free-for-all range war that existed between Bandits-Military-Law Enforcement-Vigilantes-and citizens of both Mexican and American communities continued up to the Great Depression in the rural southwest! The violent and extremist policies of both sides, and of course the overwhelmingly racial component, to this conflict is no doubt the primary reason this chapter of North American history has been unofficially sealed, but it really is a great read. Note that with today’s current racial climate, reading books about Mexican raiders deliberately breaking into White families homes and executing them and the corresponding American posse extrajudicial shootings of unaffiliated Mexicans in return will invoke a lot of passionate reactions.

American-Mexican history

Title was misleading. Interesting to a point. Thought there was more to the story than Mexico