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28 books match the query 'Texas Rangers'
A Vaquero of the Brush Country
The Life and Times of John D. YoungBy John D. Young and J. Frank Dobie
University of Texas Press, 1998
This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of thousands were killed on the prairie and where the "Skinning War" was fought. It is the story of the Chisholm Trail up to Abilene and the Platte and of establishing a ranch on the free grass of the Texas Panhandle, of roping elk in Colorado, of trailing Billy the Kid in New Mexico, of the grim lands of the Pecos. And it is the story of John Young, old-time vaquero who was trail driver, hog chaser, sheriff, ranger, hunter of Mexican bandits, horse thief killer, prairie fire fighter, ranch manager, and other things—a man who was also something of a dreamer, a man of imagination.
Captain J. A. Brooks, Texas Ranger
Paul N. Spellman
University of North Texas Press, 2007
Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger
Paul N. Spellman
University of North Texas Press, 2003
Captain John R. Hughes
Lone Star RangerChuck Parsons
University of North Texas Press, 2011
Firearms of the Texas Rangers
From the Frontier Era to the Modern AgeDoug Dukes
University of North Texas Press, 2020
John B. Denton
The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas RangerMike Cochran
University of North Texas Press, 2021
Old Riot, New Ranger
Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. MarshalBob Alexander
University of North Texas Press, 2018
One Ranger Returns
By H. Joaquin Jackson, with James L. Haley
University of Texas Press, 2008
No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger. Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border—and clamored for more. Now in One Ranger Returns, Jackson reopens his case files to tell more unforgettable stories, while also giving readers a deeply personal view of what being a Texas Ranger has meant to him and his family.
Jackson recalls his five-year pursuit of two of America's most notorious serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. He sets the record straight about the role of the Texas Rangers during the United Farm Workers strike in the Rio Grande Valley in 1966-1967. Jackson also describes the frustration of trying to solve a cold case from 1938—the brutal murder of a mother and daughter in the lonely desert east of Van Horn. He presents a rogue's gallery of cattle rustlers, drug smugglers, and a teetotaling bootlegger named Tom Bybee, a modest, likeable man who became an ax murderer. And in an eloquent concluding chapter, Jackson pays tribute to the Rangers who have gone before him, as well as those who keep the peace today.
One Ranger
A MemoirBy H. Joaquin Jackson with David Marion Wilkinson
University of Texas Press, 2005
When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin—a working Texas Ranger. Legend says that one Ranger is all it takes to put down lawlessness and restore the peace—one riot, one Ranger. In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what it was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993.
Jackson has dramatic stories to tell. Defying all stereotypes, he was the one Ranger who ensured a fair election—and an overwhelming win for La Raza Unida party candidates—in Zavala County in 1972. He followed legendary Ranger Captain Alfred Y. Allee Sr. into a shootout at the Carrizo Springs jail that ended a prison revolt—and left him with nightmares. He captured "The See More Kid," an elusive horse thief and burglar who left clean dishes and swept floors in the houses he robbed. He investigated the 1988 shootings in Big Bend's Colorado Canyon and tried to understand the motives of the Mexican teenagers who terrorized three river rafters and killed one. He even helped train Afghan mujahedin warriors to fight the Soviet Union.
Jackson's tenure in the Texas Rangers began when older Rangers still believed that law need not get in the way of maintaining order, and concluded as younger Rangers were turning to computer technology to help solve crimes. Though he insists, "I am only one Ranger. There was only one story that belonged to me," his story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state. It's a story that's as interesting as any of the legends. And yet, Jackson's story confirms the legends, too. With just over a hundred Texas Rangers to cover a state with 267,399 square miles, any one may become the one Ranger who, like Joaquin Jackson in Zavala County in 1972, stops one riot.
Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten
Enforcing Law on the Texas FrontierBob Alexander
University of North Texas Press, 2011
Reverberations of Racial Violence
Critical Reflections on the History of the BorderEdited by Sonia Hernández and John Morán González
University of Texas Press, 2021
Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and neighbors, vigilantes and law enforcement officers—in particular, Texas Rangers. Despite a 1919 investigation of the state-sanctioned violence, no one in authority was ever held responsible.
Reverberations of Racial Violence gathers fourteen essays on this dark chapter in American history. Contributors explore the impact of civil rights advocates, such as José Tomás Canales, the sole Mexican-American representative in the Texas State Legislature between 1905 and 1921. The investigation he spearheaded emerges as a historical touchstone, one in which witnesses testified in detail to the extrajudicial killings carried out by state agents. Other chapters situate anti-Mexican racism in the context of the era's rampant and more fully documented violence against African Americans. Contributors also address the roles of women in responding to the violence, as well as the many ways in which the killings have continued to weigh on communities of color in Texas. Taken together, the essays provide an opportunity to move beyond the more standard Black-white paradigm in reflecting on the broad history of American nation-making, the nation’s rampant racial violence, and civil rights activism.
Riding Lucifer's Line
Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico BorderBob Alexander
University of North Texas Press, 2013
Savage Frontier Volume I
Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837Stephen L. Moore
University of North Texas Press, 2002
Savage Frontier Volume III
Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841Stephen L. Moore
University of North Texas Press, 2007
Savage Frontier Volume IV
Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1842-1845Stephen L. Moore
University of North Texas Press, 2002
Texas Ranger Lee Hall
From the Red River to the Rio GrandeChuck Parsons
University of North Texas Press, 2020
Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds, the Intrepid
Chuck Parsons
University of North Texas Press, 2014
Texas Rangers
Lives, Legend, and LegacyBob Alexander
University of North Texas Press, 2017
The Ranger Ideal Volume 1
Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861Darren L. Ivey
University of North Texas Press, 2017
The Ranger Ideal Volume 2
Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1874-1930Darren L. Ivey
University of North Texas Press, 2018
The Ranger Ideal Volume 3
Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1898-1987Darren L. Ivey
University of North Texas Press, 2021
The Texas Rangers
A Century of Frontier DefenseBy Walter Prescott Webb
University of Texas Press, 1996
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.
Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians
Bruce Glasrud
University of North Texas Press, 2024
Tracking the Texas Rangers
The Nineteenth CenturyBruce A. Glasrud
University of North Texas Press, 2012
Tracking the Texas Rangers
The Twentieth CenturyBruce A. Glasrud
University of North Texas Press, 2013
Tracking the Texas Rangers covers leaders such as Captains Bill McDonald, "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, and Barry Caver, accomplished Rangers like Joaquin Jackson and Arthur Hill, and the use of Rangers in the Mexican Revolution. Chapters discuss their role in the oil fields, in riots, and in capturing outlaws. Most important, the Rangers of the twentieth century experienced changes in investigative techniques, strategy, and intelligence gathering. Tracking looks at the use of Rangers in labor disputes, in race issues, and in the Tejano civil rights movement. The selections cover critical aspects of those experiences--organization, leadership, cultural implications, rural and urban life, and violence.
In their introduction, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss, Jr., discuss various themes and controversies surrounding the twentieth-century Rangers and their treatment by historians over the years. They also have added annotations to the essays to explain where new research has shed additional light on an event to update or correct the original article text.
Whiskey River Ranger
The Old West Life of Baz OutlawBob Alexander
University of North Texas Press, 2016
Winchester Warriors
Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901Bob Alexander
University of North Texas Press, 2009
Yours to Command
The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonaldHarold J. Weiss Jr.
University of North Texas Press, 2009