Time of the Rangers Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present

by Cox, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780765325259
• ISBN10: 076532525X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-22
• Publisher: Forge Books

Summary

Writer-historian Mike Cox continues his acclaimed Texas-size study of the Texas Rangers, begun in The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900. This volume chronicles the famed law enforcement agency's second century.

Author Biography

MIKE COX, an elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters, began his writing career as a Texas newspaper reporter, then spent fifteen years as spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, which includes the Texas Rangers and later was Communications Manager for the Texas Department of Transportation. Now retired from the state, he lives in Austin with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
"Heroes of Old": The Ranger Force, 1900-1910	p. 17
Los Rinches: Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1915	p. 47
Los Sediciosos: Troubles on the Border, 1915-1919	p. 62
Jose Canales Takes on the Rangers: Reorganizing the Rangers, 1919	p. 86
"An Asset to Any Law Abiding Community": The 1920s	p. 100
Crime Outrides the Rangers: Last Years Under the Adjustant General, 1930-1934	p. 142
"A Great Unstrapping of Six-shooter Beltsà": The Department of Public Safety, 1935-1939	p. 165
"The Name of the Texas Rangers Has Been Carried to the Battlefields of the World": The 1940s	p. 186
Garrison's Rangers: The 1950s	p. 215
Feet of Clay: The 1960s	p. 252
"Do the Needful": The 1970s	p. 281
"Ranger Speed": The 1980s	p. 309
"Last Bastion of the Good-Old-Boy Systemà": The 1990s	p. 338
Entering the Twenty-first Century	p. 364
Epilogue: Burying the War Club	p. 381
Notes	p. 385
Bibliography	p. 463
Index	p. 483
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