The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense
The renowned historian’s classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.
 
Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. Both colorful and authoritative, it presents the evolution and exploits of the Texas Rangers through Comanche raids, the Mexican War, annexation, secession, and on into the 20th century.
 
Written in 1935 by Walter Prescott Webb, the pioneering historian of the American West, Texas Rangers is a true classic of Texas history.
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The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense
The renowned historian’s classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.
 
Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. Both colorful and authoritative, it presents the evolution and exploits of the Texas Rangers through Comanche raids, the Mexican War, annexation, secession, and on into the 20th century.
 
Written in 1935 by Walter Prescott Webb, the pioneering historian of the American West, Texas Rangers is a true classic of Texas history.
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The renowned historian’s classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.
 
Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. Both colorful and authoritative, it presents the evolution and exploits of the Texas Rangers through Comanche raids, the Mexican War, annexation, secession, and on into the 20th century.
 
Written in 1935 by Walter Prescott Webb, the pioneering historian of the American West, Texas Rangers is a true classic of Texas history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292786691
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 02/24/2022
Series: Texas Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 608
Sales rank: 397,523
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963) was a historian of the American West.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • They Rode Straight Up to Death: A Preface
  • I. Texas: A Conflict of Civilizations
  • II. Out of the Revolution
  • III. The Rangers and the Republic
  • IV. From Cherokee to Comanche
  • V. The Captain Comes: John C. Hays
  • VI. The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War
  • VII. First Years in the Union
  • VIII. The Bloody Years, 1858-1859
  • IX. The Cortinas War on the Rio Grande
  • X. Sam Houston's Grand Plan
  • XI. The State Police
  • XII. McNelly and His Men in Southwest Texas
  • XIII. McNelly and the War of Las Cuevas
  • XIV. McNelly's Successors: Lee Hall and John Armstrong
  • XV. The Frontier Battalion: Major John B. Jones
  • XVI. The El Paso Salt War
  • XVII. Sam Bass: Texas's Beloved Bandit
  • XVIII. The End of the Indian Trail: The Rangers in the Far West
  • XIX. The Closed Frontier: Last Services of the Frontier Battalion
  • XX. The Texas Rangers in the Twentieth Century
  • XXI. Revolution, World War, and Prohibition
  • XXII. Frank Hamer: Modern Texas Ranger
  • XXIII. Some Adventures of a Ranger Historian
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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