Webb, Walter Prescott
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.
9780292781108 9780292734005
65023166
Texas Rangers.
Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
Texas--History.
F391 / .W43 1965
976.4 Web 15
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.
9780292781108 9780292734005
65023166
Texas Rangers.
Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
Texas--History.
F391 / .W43 1965
976.4 Web 15