Contents
Timeline: 19th Century Texas Ranger History
Acknowledgments
In Pursuit of the Texas Rangers: The Nineteenth Century
Encomium: Bad Day at Round Rock
The Texas Rangers Revisited: Old Themes and New Viewpoints
“Valor, Wisdom, and Experience”: Early Texas Rangers and the Nature of Frontier Leadership
The Great Comanche Raid of 1840
The Deadly Colts on Walker’s Creek
Los Diablos Tejanos!
The Callahan Expedition
“Rip” Ford’s Indian Fight on the Canadian
Photo Gallery
Rangers, “Rip” Ford, and the Cortina War
Hispanic Texas Rangers Contribute to Peace On the Texas Frontier, 1838 to 1880
The “Battle” at Pease River and the Question of Reliable Sources in the Recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker
Capturing the Grand Mogul (John Wesley Hardin)
Rangers and Mounties Defending the Cattleman’s Empire
Rangers of the Last Frontier of Texas
The Jesse Evans Gang and the Death of Texas Ranger George R. Bingham
The Struggle for the Individual and the Union, 1888–1903
A Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Source Credits
Index