The Texas Rangers

A Century of Frontier Defense

Walter Prescott Webb

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780292781108
• eBook ISBN: 9780292786691
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

The renowned historian's classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.
 
Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by "Father of Texas" Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. Both colorful and authoritative, it presents the evolution and exploits of the Texas Rangers through Comanche raids, the Mexican War, annexation, secession, and on into the 20th century.
 
Written in 1935 by Walter Prescott Webb, the pioneering historian of the American West, Texas Rangers is a true classic of Texas history.

INDEX

Aird, George, 135

Alamo, siege of the, 25, 38, 84

Aldrich, Captain R. W., trip to Mexican border with, 550–66

Alexander, Major A. J., and the Las Cuevas War, 256, 258, 259, 263, 267, 268, 271, 274

Alexander, Captain E. M., in Texas state police, 220

Alston, Lieutenant Fielding, 112, 113

Ampudia, General Pedro de, and surrender of Monterey, 109

Anadarko Indians, 132, 162

murder of, at Keechi Creek, 169, 170

Anadarko Jim, 158, 159

Andrews, Captain, 48

in command of Texas Rangers, 41–43

Anti-Salt Ring, the, in El Paso, 347

Apache Indians, 6–9, 130

troubles with, in El Paso, 396, 397, 399–406

Applewhite, D. C., 225

Arista, General Mariano, defeat of, 94, 96

Armstrong, Charles M., 301 n.;

on Mexican activities during the World War, 483

Armstrong, John B., 291, 292, 454

a successor of McNelly, 294, 295

exploits of, 295–97

his capture of J. W. Hardin, 297–301

Armstrong, Tom R., 301 n.

Arrington, Captain G. W., the iron-handed man of the Panhandle, 293, 411–22, 454

Arrington, Captain William H., 24, 34

Aten, E. D., 442

Aten, Sergeant Ira, experiences of, in search for fence-cutters, 428–37

Austin, 38, 41, 87

Austin, A. L., murder of, by Mexicans, 480, 481

Austin, Charley, 480, 481

Austin, Moses, 10

Austin, Mrs. Nellie F., testimony of, before Fall committee, 480, 481

Austin, Stephen F., colonization of Texas by, 10

his capture by the Comanches, 19, 20

his employment of the first Rangers, 20, 21, 78

Bailey, D. W. H., 313

Bain, Colonel, 40

Baker, ‘Deacon,’ 421, 422

Baker, Sergeant A. Y., 462–64

Baldwin, Captain B. C., 551

Barela, Chico, mob leader in El Paso, 356, 358–62

Barnard, George, creates difficulties for Indian agents, 131, 132

Barnes, Seaborn, ‘right bower’ to Sam Bass, 374, 379, 380, 382, 386–89

Barrow, Clyde,...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Publisher’s Note
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• They Rode Straight Up to Death: A Preface
• I. Texas: A Conflict of Civilizations
• II. Out of the Revolution.
• III. The Rangers and the Republic
• IV. From Cherokee to Comanche
• V. The Captain Comes: John C. Hays
• VI. The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War
• VII. First Years in the Union
• VIII. The Bloody Years, 1858–1859
• IX. The Cortinas War on the Rio Grande.
• X. Sam Houston’s Grand Plan.
• XI. The State Police.
• XII. McNelly and His Men in Southwest Texas
• XIII. McNelly and the War of Las Cuevas
• XIV. McNelly’s Successors: Lee Hall and John Armstrong
• XV. The Frontier Battalion: Major John B. Jones.
• XVI. The El Paso Salt War.
• XVII. Sam Bass: Texas’s Beloved Bandit
• XVIII. The End of the Indian Trail: The Rangers in the Far West
• XIX. The Closed Frontier: Last Services of the Frontier Battalion
• XX. The Texas Rangers in the Twentieth Century
• XXI. Revolution, World War, and Prohibition
• XXII. Frank Hamer: Modern Texas Ranger.
• XXIII. Some Adventures of a Ranger Historian.
• Bibliography
• Index
• Footnotes