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The Texas Rangers

A Century of Frontier Defense
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1996

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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.

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    Frontmatter

    iii
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    PUBLISHER'S NOTE

    viii
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    Foreword

    ix
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    Acknowledgments

    xiii
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    They Rode Straight Up to Death: A Preface

    xv
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    CONTENTS

    xvii
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    ILLUSTRATIONS

    xix
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    I. Texas: A Conflict of Civilizations

    1
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    II. Out of the Revolution

    17
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    III. The Rangers and the Republic

    27
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    IV. From Cherokee to Comanche

    51
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    V. The Captain Comes: John C. Hays

    65
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    VI. The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War

    89
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    VII. First Years in the Union

    125
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    VIII. The Bloody Years, 1858-1859

    149
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    IX. The Cortinas War on the Rio Grande

    173
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    X. Sam Houston's Grand Plan

    195
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    XI. The State Police

    217
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    XII. McNelly and His Men in Southwest Texas

    231
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    XIII. McNelly and the War of Las Cuevas

    253
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    XIV. McNelly's Successors: Lee Hall and John Armstrong

    281
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    XV. The Frontier Battalion: Major John B.Jones

    305
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    XVI. The El Paso Salt War

    343
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    XVII. Sam Bass: Texas's Beloved Bandit

    369
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    XVIII. The End of the Indian Trail: The Rangers in the Far West

    393
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    XIX. The Closed Frontier: Last Services of the Frontier Battalion

    423
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    XX. The Texas Rangers in the Twentieth Century

    455
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    XXI. Revolution, World War, and Prohibition

    471
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    XXII. Frank Hamer: Modern Texas Ranger

    517
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    XXIII. Some Adventures of a Ranger Historian

    547
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    Bibliography

    569
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    Index

    573
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