The Men Who Wear the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers

by Charles M. Robinson III

Book Overview

In 1935, Walter Prescott Webb first told about them in his classicThe Texas Rangers, but not until now do we have a modern retelling of this storied organization, based on new material and written... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067945649X
• ISBN13: 9780679456490
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great read.

This is a very good read. Very detailed and covers the Rangers from the very beginning.

Texas Rangers Do Rule Texas

I love reading about Texas Rangers. They have come a long way and are still a big part of Texas. This book tells you stories and gives you some great background. Worth the money. Lesa Trapp The Odd Mind Radio Show

Brings Texas History to Life

Probably one of the best researched, and best written account of both Texas and Texas Ranger history.I originally got the book for my own interest, but soon decided to use it as a primary resource for a major research paper.Robinson even tells the part of The Alamo story that almost all high school Texas History teachers leave out.This book should be one of the textbooks students should use for Texas History.You can feel the power of Jack Hayes, the heat of the Texas desert, you fear for the men at The Alamo, and you feel like your riding along side the Rangers against the Indians.This book is required reading for any Texan who wants to know more about the history of the state and many of its legends.

Balanced and interesting account of the real Rangers

Robinson captures all the important characters and events in this short, easy-to-read, well balanced book of the Texas Rangers. The book is actually a series of short stories about the most notorious and memorable men who made the Texas Rangers legendary not only for their fortitude and bravery, but also for their ruthlessness and sometimes lawlessness. The book is very objective and does not attempt to portray the Rangers as gods. Nevertheless, the Rangers were a unique band of men who often sacrificed their lives to protect the ordinary citizen living in remote areas of Texas. The real Texas Rangers and their actual accomplishments are far more amazing than the myth that continues to surround these extraordinary men to this day.

Rugged Historical Adventure

Spend the night up to your neck in a river, sleep on the desert floor, grapple with Commanche warriors; all for the sake of the Lone Star State. Ride with the right group and you're a hero, but look out. This account is real life adventure put into easily readable chapters that will leave you glad the author has written other works.

One Man's Depredations are Another's Horror Story

Mr. Robinson has provided the definitive history of the Texas Rangers. Careful to tell his story against the backdrop of concurrent historical events, this book is lucid, informative and an excellent read.While he makes no apologies, Mr. Robinson describes in detail the alleged excesses of the Rangers while consistently lumping the atrocities of the Indians into the category of "depredations". The settlers who were on the receiving end of these depredations might not use such a ten-dollar word.The Rangers were no missionaries according to Mr. Robinson, but the rough justice they meted out was often the only assurance our Texas ancestors had that they would not be murdered in their beds, or worse. Mr. Robinson does point out the viciousness of the Tonkawa Indians ( Ranger allies) with a chilling description of the practice of impaling young children upon broken tree branches. THE MEN WHO WEAR THE STAR is a mandatory addition to the library of any historian of the nineteenth century Texas frontier.