Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians
by Bruce Glasrud and Harold Weiss, Jr
University of North Texas Press, 2024
Cloth: 978-1-57441-930-6 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-939-9
Library of Congress Classification F385.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.2097640722
TOC
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Historical Vistas: Texas Rangers and Their Interpreters
Part 1: Understanding Ranger History: Two Cardinal Points
Chapter 1: Primary Sources of Ranger History in Public Depositories
Chapter 2: From Austin to Hollywood: Walter Prescott Webb, King Vidor, and The Texas Rangers, by Light Townsend Cummins
Part 2: Patterns of Ranger Historical Writings
Chapter 3: General Histories: Themes and Issues
Chapter 4: Biographical Schools: From Popular to Scholarly
Chapter 5: Historiography of the Texas Rangers in Selected Periodical Literature and Book Chapters
Chapter 6: In Their Own Words: The Autobiographical Way
Part 3: Interpreting the Rangers: Their Historians and Their Professional Writings
Traditionalists
Chapter 7: Chuck Parsons: Updated Traditionalist
Chapter 8: Stephen L. Moore: Factual Purveyor
Chapter 9: Bob Alexander: Popular Chronicler
Revisionists
Chapter 10: Robert M. Utley: New Standard Bearer
Chapter 11: Louis R. Sadler and Charles H. Harris: Border Footprints
Dual Format: Traditionalists/Revisionists
Chapter 12: Frederick Wilkins: Early Practitioner
Chapter 13: Mike Cox: Prolific Hybrid Author
Cultural Constructionalists: A New Vista
Chapter 14: Gary Clayton Anderson: Reframing Indian-Anglo-Ranger Relations
Chapter 15: When Truth Is No Longer a Casualty of Myth: Américo Paredes and the Texas Rangers
Chapter 16: Reckoning with Ranger Terror: Monica Muñoz Martinez, State Violence, and Vernacular History
Part 4: Other Notable Authors and Topics
Chapter 17: Historical Writings from A to Z: Other Ranger Historians
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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