The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense

by Walter Prescott Webb

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:	01/01/1965
Series:	Texas Classics
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	208,953
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

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