Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers

Description

Author: Utley, Robert M.   (1929-2022)

Publisher: Berkley

Pub  Date: 2002

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Previous owner’s blindstamp on upper corner ffep.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/4″ bend that extend to first two or three pages.  Lower front cover corner at spine foot worn.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes:   You may or may not remember, The Lone Ranger had been a Texas Ranger.  “…in a cloud of dust and a hearty ‘Hi yo Silver.  Away!'” “The history of the Ranges divides conveniently at 1910.  Before 1910, the Rangers were volunteer fighting units contending with Indians and Mexicans who then turned themselves into lawmen of the Old West…For the years 1823 to 1910, the designation ‘Texas Ranger’ encompassed two very different kinds of men….Until 1874, Texas Rangers were citizen soldiers, intermittently mobilized for temporary duty to fight Indians or Mexicans….During the years of the Texas Republic, moreover, 1836-1845, citizen soldiers gathered to fend off military incursions from Mexico…After statehood men volunteered to fight as U.S. Troops in the Mexican War.  They bore federal military designations, but they called themselves Texas Rangers….An act of the Texas legislature in 1874 established what administratively came to be known as the Frontier Battalion.  The authors of the law meant to create a permanent or semipermanent military force to do what the citizen soldiers had done, only better.”  (From the Preface)  For a self-penned obituary of Robert Utley, see https://www.westernhistory.org/news/12810144  .