The Texas Rangers : A Century of Frontier Defense

by Walter Prescott Webb, Lyndon B. Johnson (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292781108
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	01/28/1965
Series:	Texas Rangers Series
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	5.92(w) x 9.07(h) x 1.56(d)

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