TEXAS RANGERS : A Century of Frontier Defense (2nd Edition)

Webb, Walter Prescott; (Lyndon B. Johnson, Foreword)

ISBN 10: 0292781105 / ISBN 13: 9780292781108

Published by Univ of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1993

About this Item

Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF with trace shelfwear. First published 1935, exactly a century after the Texas Rangers was established, and absorbed into a larger organization, ceased to be. As J. Frank Dobie says in this volume historian Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) gives "The beginning, middle, and end of the subject." Dobie, here, refers to the entrenched popular fiction's stereotyped portraits of these soldiers naught but ". a pair of swaggering boots, a big hat, and a six shooter moving across the prairies under a cloud of pistol smoke." 584 pgs, foreword from President Lyndon B. Johnson of May,1965, in 23 chapters, places the Texas Ranger as an American fighting force in the Texas frontier when Mexican, Native Indian & westward moving American cultures knew no peace. Fine copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TEXAS RANGERS : A Century of Frontier Defense (2nd Edition)
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Press, Austin, TX
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292781105
• ISBN 13: 9780292781108
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Lonnie Rees (Illustrator) & photos
• Edition: Second Edition, Third Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military, Warfare, Weaponry, Firearms
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963) was a historian of the American West.