Texas Rangers Abroad

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Texas Rangers Abroad is a combination of three separate stories about Texas Ranger Wayne Stephens and Scotland Yard Inspector Caleb Jones. They first meet in the streets of London in 1885 when Stephens stumbles into a case Jones is working on in the predawn hours. With doubt surrounding the validity of Jones's claims, the ranger agrees to help him solve his case while pursuing another dangerous criminal. The only question is, who will catch their man first? Next, after two years of writing to his new good friend and colleague, Stephens gets Jones to bring his wife to Texas for a visit to his parents' ranch near San Antonio. The peace and quiet lasts for about five minutes until a sheriff asks the ranger for help, and Jones has to assist the deputy in their absence. With robbery, murder, kidnapping, and a surprise relative in attendance, this vacation is anything but peaceful. Lastly, Stephens is ready to retire from the rangers after twenty years of service. He wants to have a family and stay close to home after one last patrol, but he doesn't have time to unpack before Jones recruits him for one last case. An adventure awaits them in the southern hemisphere where English subjects live in a Wild West atmosphere. A fortune in gold and the future of a nation hang in the balance as the two lawmen go farther than ever before to serve justice.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : J. Stephen Miles
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release : 2023-01-25
File : 482 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781639034901


Na Ve Abroad Mexico

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Reader comments about Marcus Wilder travel columns in the San Antonio EXPRESS~News. Marcus Wilder is a consummate traveler and a one of a kind yarn spinner.Tracy Barnett, Travel Editor, San Antonio EXPRESS-News Mark is Mencken, Ann Coulter, and Chaucer rolled into one.Joseph Columbus Smith, Journalist Love what you are doing with your stories of the Camino. I live the Camino every day in my own way.Sue Kenney, Canadian author, Lecturer, and Pilgrim I read your reports with pleasure. Met een vriendelijke groet.Pieter, The Netherlands I have been reading with interest your story in the newspaper and sharing with my students. I teach Spanish my students follow the Camino via the Internet. Cesiah, International Languages Department Coordinator We are living it through Marcus Wilders eyes. Thank you for a lovely armchair travel adventure.Elizabeth, San Antonio My mother forwarded one of your travel stories to me. I enjoyed it immensely. Your writing is refreshing because you notice the details that make places, people, and events come alive.JoeLyn, Dallas I am fascinated by your stories.Memo, Laredo I bookmarked your page. I was captured.Waltrud, Chicago I love learning about other cultures and have really reveled in the sense of interacting with the people in your narrative.J.J., San Antonio

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Genre : History
Author : Marcus Henderson Wilder
Publisher : iUniverse
Release : 2011-09-14
File : 241 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781462046812


The Texas Rangers In Transition

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Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition 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. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.

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Genre : History
Author : Charles H. Harris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Release : 2019-04-25
File : 559 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780806163642


Tracking The Texas Ranger Historians

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The first systematic inquiry into the Texas Rangers did not begin until 1935 with Walter Prescott Webb’s publication The Texas Rangers. Since then numerous works have appeared on the Rangers, but no volume has been published before that covers the various historians of the Rangers and their approaches to the topic. Editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss Jr. gather essays that profile individual historians of the Texas Rangers, explore themes and issues in Ranger history, and comprise archival research, biographies, and autobiographies. Several approaches in Texas historiography have influenced the writings on the Texas Rangers and serve to organize the chapters in the volume. Traditionalists (Chuck Parsons, Stephen L. Moore, and Bob Alexander) stress the revered happenings in the nineteenth century that brought about the Lone Star state and its empire-building Ranger force. To these historical writers the Texas Rangers were part of a golden age. Revisionists (Robert M. Utley, Louis R. Sadler, and Charles H. Harris) pull back from this adulation, emphasize the importance of overlooked ethnic and racial groups, and point out misbehavior on the part of Rangers. They also want to separate fact from fiction. Some Ranger historians (Frederick Wilkins and Mike Cox) straddle both traditional and revisionist approaches in their works. The final group, Cultural Constructionalists (Gary Clayton Anderson, Américo Paredes, and Monica Muñoz Martinez), continue the work of Revisionists and focus on an interconnected past that includes theoretical approaches and the study of memory and regional identities. Several themes emerge throughout the book. One is how the Rangers changed from unorganized mounted militia, dragoons in the modern sense, to organized cavalry forces with six-shooter firepower who served as a military arm of the state and nation. A second is how the dichotomous views of the Rangers—as either patriot warriors or bloody avengers—left their imprint on Anglo and Hispanic society. This divergent examination especially derived from incidents in the US-Mexican War, the period from 1910 to 1920, and the lower Rio Grande valley in the 1960s. And yet another theme is how the Rangers first resisted and fought against, yet ultimately absorbed, all creeds and colors into their ranks over two hundred years as they evolved into police officers: Anglo, Black, Hispanic, Indian, and women Rangers.

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Genre : History
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Release : 2024-10-15
File : 465 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781574419399


Revolution In Texas

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A gripping narrative about a dramatic episode in the history of the American West--and a major contribution to our understanding of the origins of Mexican American identity In Revolution in Texas Benjamin Johnson tells the little-known story of one of the most intense and protracted episodes of racial violence in United States history. In 1915, against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the uprising that would become known as the Plan de San Diego began with a series of raids by ethnic Mexicans on ranches and railroads. Local violence quickly erupted into a regional rebellion. In response, vigilante groups and the Texas Rangers staged an even bloodier counterinsurgency, culminating in forcible relocations and mass executions. Faced with the overwhelming forces arrayed against it, the uprising eventually collapsed. But, as Johnson demonstrates, the rebellion resonated for decades in American history. Convinced of the futility of using force to protect themselves against racial discrimination and economic oppression, many Mexican Americans elected to seek protection as American citizens with equal access to rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution.

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Genre : History
Author : Benjamin Heber Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release : 2003-01-01
File : 276 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0300109709


Time Of The Rangers

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The second installment of a no-holds-barred look at the history of the famed Texas Rangers from western author Mike Cox Following up on his magnificent history of the 19th century Texas Rangers, Mike Cox now takes us from 1900 through the present. From horseback to helicopters, from the frontier cattle days through the crime-ridden boom-or-bust oil field era, from Prohibition to World War II espionage to the violent ethnic turbulence of the ‘50s and ‘60s--which sometimes led to demands that the Texas Rangers be disbanded. Cox takes readers through the modern history of the famed Texas lawmen. Cox's position as a spokesperson for the Texas department of Public Safety allowed him to comb the archives and conduct extensive personal interviews to give us this remarkable account of how a tough group of horse-borne lawmen--too prone to hand out roadside justice, critics complained--to one of the world's premier investigative agencies, respected and admired worldwide. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Genre : History
Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Forge Books
Release : 2009-08-18
File : 517 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781429941167


P L Buquor Indian Fighter Texas Ranger Mayor Of San Antonio

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Soldier, Indian Fighter, Texas Ranger, Mayor of San Antonio, City Marshal, Justice of the Peace, Federal Interpreter, Spanish-speaking scholar - P. L.. Buquor was all of these and more. As a young man out for adventure, he answered the call to "Save Texas" and found himself on an exciting and wondrous journey that brought him into contact with some of the most famous names in history: Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Robert E. Lee, Santa Anna, John Coffee Hays, Juan Seguin, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and many others. This story introduces his family, his travels, what life was like for a young man in the 1800's, traveling by horse, stagecoach, sleeping on the ground, and the exciting battles in which he participated. This book takes him from a young man of fifteen in 1836 to his death in 1901. If you want Texas History as lived by one of the unsung heroes of Texas, this is the book for you.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Sylvia Villarreal Bisnar
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release : 2009
File : 214 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781449034139


Papers Relating To Foreign Affairs

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Genre : United States
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Release : 1868
File : 872 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044106524044


Papers Relating To Foreign Affairs

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Genre : United States
Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher :
Release : 1868
File : 910 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000055480987


Foreign Relations Of The United States

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Genre : United States
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Release : 1868
File : 866 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044020183109