The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense by Walter Prescott Webb
Webb's classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935. This edition is a reproduction of the original Houghton Mifflin edition.
The Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers
Summary
This classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935.
The Texas Rangers Summary
About Walter Prescott Webb
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
Additional information
GOR002032559
9780292781108
0292781105
The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense by Walter Prescott Webb
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Texas Press
19650101
608
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