"A splendid, indeed brilliant new work by an outstanding historian of the American West." --Howard Lamar, author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University
"A thorough job...a fine book." --Larry...
"In the annals of law enforcement few groups or agencies have become as encrusted with legend as the Texas Rangers. The always-readable historian Robert Utley has done a thorough job of chipping away these encrustations and revealing the Ranger's rather rag-and-bone, catch-as-catch-can...