The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 - Paperbackby Glen S. Ely (Author) This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo American outlaws. Before the