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Old 12-17-2013, 01:08 AM
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Originally Posted by kwselke View Post
I thought the Nueces Strip border question was settled by the Mexican American War. Were there any formal fights between the US and Mexico over it after the war was settled. I know of this bandit raid Raid of 1878 which occurred a few years before my mother's family settled in LaSalle County. There may have been revolutionaries and bandits after that but they did not make it as far in as Cotulla. There still are bandit issues in the Nueces Strip, but we have them in Houston too.
From here in the Wild Horse Desert,where the Nueces meets the Gulf of Mexico, sometimes I wonder.
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