Bringing The Law To Texas. Crime And Violence In Nineteenth Century Texas.

ALLEN G. HATLEY

Publication: LaGrange: Centex Press, 2002,

First edition. Signed by the author. 8vo. Cloth, xxvi, 198 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits, epilogue, appendices, endnotes, index. For the first time, the accurate, entertaining, and sweeping story of how the lawmen and courts worked to establish the rule of law during the first fifty-five years (1846-1900) of the Lone Star State is told. In addition to the Texas Rangers, the exploits and sacrifices of the various sheriffs, constables, deputies, town marshals, and municipal police officers in Texas during the nineteenth century, is told in quite some detail. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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