This Week in Texas History: Bandits hold river pilots for ransom

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Two “river pilots” on patrol over the international border on Aug. 10, 1919 mistook the Rio Conchos River for the Rio Grande and a wrong turn took them deep into the Mexican interior.A chronic burr under the Lone Star saddle since San Jacinto, Mexican bandits were again making life miserable on the…

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