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'The Texas Rangers' depicts men whose influence was worked not by recklessness or foolhardiness, but by the steadiness of their purpose and performance. Also contributing was their sureness, among both the law-abiding and the law-breaking, that thought of self would never deter the Rangers from fulfilling the commitment of their vows as agents of law, order, and justice.
List 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
About the author
By Walter Prescott Webb
Summary
This classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935.
