The Gentlemen in the White Hats: Dramatic Episodes in the History of the Texas Rangers [Paperback]

C. L. Douglas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1992 | Age Level: 10 and up

For more than 150 years the Texas Rangers have blazed a trail across Texas history in their role as policemen for the state of Texas. In 1934, when C. L. Douglas wrote this popular account of the Rangers' achievements, there were few other histories of the organization. By vocation a journalist, Douglas devoted years of research to these historic lawmen with their aura of courage and resolve. Legendary feats from all the historical periods of the Rangers are brought back to life in Douglas's accounts. From the early days of the Republic and before the Civil War he writes of the battles of the vengeful Comanches against the relentless advance of the white frontiersman and their way of life. After the creation of the Frontier Battalion in the 1870s he narrates the heady exploits against the Mexican bandits and outlaw cattle rustlers. From the twentieth century we read of such exploits as those of Frank Hamer and his relentless pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde. The mystique of the Texas Rangers persists—the mystique of a remarkable cast of characters vividly brought to life by Douglas. Truly a different breed were these Gentlemen in the White Hats.

Editorial Reviews

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There are those who say that it was started by the Spanish--by the first Mexican conquistadors who came up from across the Rio Grande to carve out a new empire in the wild and far-flung Land of the Tejas.

And there are those who have a different story, those who base their claims on the shaky foundations of pure legend--leaving history a plastic plaything in the hands of those who spread its inky trails across the records--but no one know with any degree of certainty just where was first conceived the idea behind the Texas Rangers, that force of hard-fighting, fast-riding men, whose keen eyes have watched the fringes of a state's frontier for more than a hundred years.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: State House Press; Second edition edition (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938349821
• ISBN-13: 978-0938349822
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,306,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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