The Men Who Wear the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers - Hardcover

Robinson, Charles M., III

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067945649X ISBN 13: 9780679456490

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

A colorful portrait of the famed Texas lawmen traces the history of this famed law enforcement organization from their earliest battles with the Comanches to the present. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles M. Robinson III is a native of Texas and a graduate of St. Edward's University in Austin and the University of Texas Pan American. He is the author of several books on the Old West, including Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie, which won the Texas Historical Commission's T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award in 1993, and A Good Year to Die. He lives in San Benito, Texas.

From the Inside Flap:

ter Prescott Webb first told about them in his classic The Texas Rangers, but not until now do we have a modern retelling of this storied organization, based on new material and written with the encouragement of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame.

Most narratives of this colorful story, even Webb's, leave out several important eras in the history of the Rangers--the Civil War years, for instance, simply don't exist, and there is little acknowledgment of the Reconstruction period, from 1866 to 1874. In addition, though these previous chronicles concerned themselves primarily with the Rangers since their formal organization in 1835, the earlier years, when the "Ranging" defense force was established by Stephen Austin, are significant and exciting. And while most stories about the Texas Rangers treat them uncritically and uniformly as heroes, this was not always the case, to say the least.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 067945649X
• ISBN 13: 9780679456490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352