Texas Rangers a century of frontier defense
The Texas Rangers
Walter Prescott Webb ; illustrated with drawings by Lonnie Rees and with photographs ; foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Second edition.
- Austin, Texas University of Texas Press 1965
- xx, 583 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-572) and index.
They rode straight up to death: A preface -- Texas: a conflict of civilizations -- Out of the revolution -- The rangers and the republic -- From Cherokee to Comanche -- The captain comes: John c. hays -- The Texas rangers in the Mexican war -- First years in the union -- The bloody years, 1858-1859 -- The cortinas war on the Rio Grande -- Sam Houston's grand plan -- The state police -- Mcnelly and his men in southwest Texas -- McNelly and the war of Las Cuevas -- McNelly's successors: lee hall and john Armstrong -- The frontier battalion: major John b. Jones -- The el paso salt war -- Sam bass: Texas's beloved bandit -- The end of the indian trail: The rangers in the far west -- The closed frontier: last services of the frontier battalion -- The Texas rangers in the twentieth century -- Revolution, world war, and prohibition -- Frank Hamer: modern Texas ranger -- Some adventures of a ranger historian.
Episodes from the history of the Texas Rangers reveal the deeds of the men who fostered the growth and success of the state law enforcement agency.