Lone star lawmen [[electronic resource] ] : the second century of the Texas Rangers / / Robert M. Utley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781836503321
• Autore: Utley Robert M. <1929-2022.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-15893-3; 9786611158934; 0-19-803516-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.4/063
• Soggetti: Outlaws - Texas; Criminals - Texas; Crime - Texas - History - 20th century; Texas History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-390) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue -- The border, 1910-1915 -- The "bandit war," 1915 -- The Big Bend, 1913-1919 -- Austin, 1918-1919 -- Pat Neff's "battles of peace," 1921-1925 -- Ma and Pa Ferguson, 1925-1927 -- Dan Moody, 1927-1931 -- Ross and Bill Sterling, 1931-1933 -- Return of the Fergusons, 1933-1935 -- The Department of Public Safety, 1935 -- DPS birth pangs, 1935-1938 -- Homer Garrison, 1938-1968 -- Gambling-- and other distractions -- Latino uprising -- Change, 1965-1985 -- Highs and lows, 1970s -- Highs and lows, 1980s -- Highs and lows, 1990s -- A summing-up.
• Sommario/riassunto: Hailed as ""a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same,"" Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now, in the eagerly anticipated conclusion, Lone Star Lawmen, Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers, this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West. Based on unprecedented access to Ranger archives, this fast-paced narrative stretches from the days of the Mexican Revolution (where atrocities against Mexican Americans marked the nadir of Ranger