The Texas Rangers In Transition, From Gunfighters To Criminal Investigators 1921-1935

CHARLES H. AND LOUIS R. SADLER HARRIS III

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019, Norman

First edition. Thick 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in white on the spine, xi [blank], 640 pp., acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated from photographs, portraits, map, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. “This book takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators.” As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 46329