The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense

ix, 583 pp. Red boards. Illustrated with drawings by Lonnie Rees and with photographs. CONTENTS: 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; Bibliography; Index.