Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter iii
2. PUBLISHER'S NOTE viii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. They Rode Straight Up to Death: A Preface xv
6. CONTENTS xvii
7. ILLUSTRATIONS xix
8. I. Texas: A Conflict of Civilizations 1
9. II. Out of the Revolution 17
10. III. The Rangers and the Republic 27
11. IV. From Cherokee to Comanche 51
12. V. The Captain Comes: John C. Hays 65
13. VI. The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War 89
14. VII. First Years in the Union 125
15. VIII. The Bloody Years, 1858-1859 149
16. IX. The Cortinas War on the Rio Grande 173
17. X. Sam Houston's Grand Plan 195
18. XI. The State Police 217
19. XII. McNelly and His Men in Southwest Texas 231
20. XIII. McNelly and the War of Las Cuevas 253
21. XIV. McNelly's Successors: Lee Hall and John Armstrong 281
22. XV. The Frontier Battalion: Major John B.Jones 305
23. XVI. The El Paso Salt War 343
24. XVII. Sam Bass: Texas's Beloved Bandit 369
25. XVIII. The End of the Indian Trail: The Rangers in the Far West 393
26. XIX. The Closed Frontier: Last Services of the Frontier Battalion 423
27. XX. The Texas Rangers in the Twentieth Century 455
28. XXI. Revolution, World War, and Prohibition 471
29. XXII. Frank Hamer: Modern Texas Ranger 517
30. XXIII. Some Adventures of a Ranger Historian 547
31. Bibliography 569
32. Index 573