The Legend Begins: The Texas Rangers, 1823-1845

by Frederick Wilkins

Book Overview

The Texas Rangers are legendary, but just where does legend end and fact begin? Frederick Wilkins begins his new history of the Rangers, the first major Ranger history in many decades, by using the recently discovered and now much more accessible source materials to separate the facts from the fiction.
The Legend Begins is a masterful history of the Rangers from their earliest antecedents in the 1820s, as a defense force against Indian depredations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880510413
• ISBN13: 9781880510414
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"