GeoCoords:
Latitude: 26.401990000000
Longitude: -97.390030000000
Longitude: -97.390030000000
County:
- Cameron
Date:
June 12, 1875
Time Period:
Description:
Capt. L. H. McNelly leads Texas Rangers in an attack on twelve to sixteen Mexican cattle rustlers in the marsh below Laguna Madre. They kill every Mexican except one. One ranger, L. “Berry” Smith, is killed in the fighting.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 239-248.
Leander McNelly Original Title: Leander Harvey McNelly
Image Type: Photograph
Image Viewed: https://www.texasranger.org/texas-ranger-museum/hall-of-fame/leander-harvey-mcnelly/
Image Accessed: May 22, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 26.401990000000
Longitude: -97.390030000000
Longitude: -97.390030000000
County:
- Cameron
Date:
June 12, 1875
Event Description:
Capt. L. H. McNelly leads Texas Rangers in an attack on twelve to sixteen Mexican cattle rustlers in the marsh below Laguna Madre. They kill every Mexican except one. One ranger, L. “Berry” Smith, is killed in the fighting.
Event Type:
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 239-248.
Leander McNelly Original Title: Leander Harvey McNelly
Image Type: Photograph
Image Viewed: https://www.texasranger.org/texas-ranger-museum/hall-of-fame/leander-harvey-mcnelly/
Image Accessed: May 22, 2019