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and activities of Texas volunteers in the same struggle." The role of
the Texas Rangers in the Mexican War has attracted much historical
investigation, beginning with Walter P. Webb's master's thesis "The
Texas Rangers in the Mexican War," later the basis for a chapter in
his monumental Texas Rangers published in 193511 Webb and most
Texas historians have generally praised the Rangers, but recent arti-
cles by Stephen B. Oates and Neil Sapper point to excesses against
Mexican civilians committed by the Rangers during the war.'"
The complex New Mexico boundary controversy which followed
the Mexican War has been the subject of several studies. William C.
Binkley's pioneer work, The Expansionist Movement in Texas, 1836-
1850, remains the most thorough study, but master's theses by Willie
Harriet Nutt and William Calvin Ogier and an article by J. J. Bow-
den should be consulted.'" Kenneth F. Neighbours of Midwestern Uni-
versity has emphasized the role of Robert S. Neighbors in maintaining
Texas's claims in the New Mexico region. In an instructive article in
the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Neighbours concluded that:
0OSeymour V. Connor, Adventure in Glory (Austin, 1965), 238-247; Connor and Odie B.
Faulk, North America Divided: The Mexican War, i846-z848 (New York, 1971), especially
45-48, 116-117, 131-132; Henry W. Barton, Texas Volunteers in the Mexican War (Waco,
1970).
"Walter Prescott Webb, "The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War" (M.A. thesis,
University of Texas, Austin, 192o); Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Cen-
tury of Frontier Defense (Boston, 1935)
"2Stephen B. Oates, "Los Diablos Tejanos," in Visions of Glory: Texans on the South-
western Frontier (Norman, 1970), 25-52; Neil Sapper, "Barbarism and Restraint: The
Occupation of Mexico City," Texas Military History, VIII (No. 2, 1970), 97-110o. That
Webb's views on the Rangers' actions in the Mexican War changed in later years is noted
by Llerena B. Friend, "W. P. Webb's Texas Rangers," Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
LXXIV (January, 1971), 294-323. For other writings on the Rangers in the Mexican War
see Roger N. Conger et al., Rangers of Texas (Waco, 1969), especially 16-19, 43-58, 70-
78, 88-91; W. J. Hughes, Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest (Norman,
1964), 22-56; John Salmon Ford, Rip Ford's Texas, ed. by Stephen B. Oates (Austin, 1963),
59-1o9; Henry W. Barton, "The United States Cavalry and the Texas Rangers," South-
western Historical Quarterly, LXIII (April, 196o), 495-510o; James Kimmins Greer, Colo-
nel Jack Hays: Texas Frontier Leader and California Builder (New York, 1952) ; Ronnie
Tyler, "The Rangers at Zacualtipan," Texana, IV (Winter, 1966), 341-350. For additional
material on Texans and the Mexican War see Henry W. Barton, "Five Texas Frontier
Companies During the Mexican War," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXVI (July,
1962), 17-3o; Darwin Payne, "Camp Life in the Army of Occupation: Corpus Christi,
July 1845 to March 1846," ibid., LXXIII (January, 1970), 326-342; Ben Procter, "Palo
Alto," in Battles of Texas (Waco, 1967), 119-131; and Charles P. Roland, Albert Sidney
Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics (Austin, 1964), 124-139.
'"William Campbell Binkley, The Expansionist Movement in Texas, x836-185o (Berke-
ley, 1925), especially 123-217; Willie Harriet Nutt, "The Texas-New Mexico Boundary
Controversy, 1836-1850" (M.A. thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1933); William Calvin
Ogier, "Settlement of the Texas-New Mexico Boundary Dispute" (M.A. thesis, University
of Texas, Austin, 1930); J. J. Bowden, "The Texas-New Mexico Boundary Dispute Along
the Rio Grande," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXIII (October, 1959), 221-237.
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