The Texas Rangers in Transition: From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921-1935 - Couverture rigide

Harris, Charles H.; Sadler, Louis R.

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ISBN 10 : 0806162600 ISBN 13 : 9780806162607

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

Synopsis

Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial(TM) 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Charles H. Harris III, professor emeritus of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. He has coauthored half a dozen books, including The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920, The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920, and The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue.

Louis R. Sadler, professor emeritus of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. He has coauthored half a dozen books, including The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920, The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920, and The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806162600
• ISBN 13: 9780806162607
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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