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The Texas Rangers: Vanguard of Anglo Settlement in the Lone Star State

First  Edition©2020  Bedford/St. Martin's

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Table of Contents

Central Question

Learning Objective

Historical Background

Letter from F.A. Blake to E.J. Davis, October 23, 1873

State of Texas, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Texas, 1875

James B. Gillett, Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875-1881

N.A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1899

"The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez," c. 1901

Las Norias Bandit Raid: Texas Rangers with Dead Bandits, October 8, 1915

Project Questions

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Additional Resources for Research

Andrew R. Graybill

Andrew R. Graybil is professor of history and Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the author or editor of four books, including Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 and Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States (co-edited with Adam Arenson). He has written reviews for The American Scholar, The New York Times Book Review, Texas Monthly, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and is currently at work on a narrative history of the Great Plains.