Regulator-Moderator War, Tex., 1839-1844

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Name (Latin)
Regulator-Moderator War, Tex., 1839-1844
Coordinates
-94.42138889 -94.42138889 32.89138889 32.89138889 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing place name
Texas
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q7309711
Library of congress: sh 98003488
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: NUCMC data from East Texas Research Center for Asbury, S. Papers, 1807-1943(Regulator-Moderator War)
  • New handbook of Texas, 1996(Regulator-Moderator War; feud in Harrison and Shelby counties in the Redlands of East Texas from 1839 to 1844; roots of the conflict lay in the frauds and land swindling that had been rife in the Neutral Ground, the lawless area between the American and Mexican borders)

Wikipedia description:

The 1839–1844 Regulator–Moderator War, or the Shelby County War, was a nineteenth-century feud in East Texas during the Republic of Texas years between rival factions. The war started out as a dispute of land ownership before becoming a violent conflict for control of the local economy. Soon raids, livestock thievery and murders erupted in the region and took the lives of over forty men.

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