Riding Lucifer's Line [[electronic resource] ] : Ranger deaths along the Texas-Mexico border / / by Bob Alexander ; with foreword by Byron A. Johnson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817333703321
• Autore: Alexander Bob (James R.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2013
• ISBN: 1-57441-513-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Collana: Number 11 in the Frances B. Vick series
• Disciplina: 976.4/05
• Soggetti: Law enforcement - Mexican-American Border Region - History - 19th century; Law enforcement - Mexican-American Border Region - History - 20th century; Peace officers - Mortality - Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican-American Border Region History 19th century; Mexican-American Border Region History 20th century; Texas History 1846-1950
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Frontier Battalion era, 1874/1901 -- Photo gallery, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum -- Sonny Smith, 1875 -- John E. McBride and Conrad E. Mortimer, 1877 -- Samuel "Sam" Frazier, 1878 -- George R. "Red" Bingham, 1880 -- Frank Sieker, 1885 -- Charles H. V. Fusselman, 1890 -- John F. Gravis, 1890 -- Robert E. Doaty, 1892 -- Frank Jones, 1893 -- Joseph McKidrict, 1894 -- Ernest St. Leon, 1898 -- The Ranger Force era, 1901/1935 -- Photo gallery, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum -- W. Emmett Robuck, 1902 -- Thomas Jefferson Goff, 1905 -- Quirl Bailey Carnes, 1910 -- Grover Scott Russell, 1913 -- Eugene B. Hulen, 1915 -- Robert Lee Burdett, 1915 -- William P. Stillwell, 1918 -- Joe Robert Shaw, 1918 -- Lenn T. Sadler, 1918 -- Delbert "Tim" Timberlake, 1918 -- T. E. Paul Perkins, 1918 -- William M. Alsobrook, 1919 -- Joseph B. Buchanan, 1921.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is-or at least can be-risky ; business, hazardous to one's health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: "As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today's Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border." In Riding Lucifer's Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made th