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A twenty-first-century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, and corruptionThe Texas Rangers rode into existence in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico, and continue today as one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson offers a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles both their epic, daring escapades and how the white and propertied power structures of Texas have used them as enforcers and protectors.Fleshing out key episodes and individuals in Texas Ranger history, Swanson begins by covering their birth and emergence as conquerors of the wild and violent Texas frontier, as they skirmished with Apaches and Comanches and assisted the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Beginning around 1870, the Rangers transformed themselves from a frontier battalion into a state police force. Although the Rangers found themselves rocked by a series of .
A twenty-first-century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, and corruptionThe Texas Rangers rode into existence in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico, and continue today as one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson offers a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles both their epic, daring escapades and how the white and propertied power structures of Texas have used them as enforcers and protectors.Fleshing out key episodes and individuals in Texas Ranger history, Swanson begins by covering their birth and emergence as conquerors of the wild and violent Texas frontier, as they skirmished with Apaches and Comanches and assisted the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Beginning around 1870, the Rangers transformed themselves from a frontier battalion into a state police force. Although the Rangers found themselves rocked by a series of .
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A twenty-first-century reckoning with the legendary Texas
Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also
documenting atrocities, brutality, and corruptionThe Texas
Rangers rode into existence in 1823, when Texas was still part
of Mexico, and continue today as one of the most famous of all
law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson
offers a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles both
their epic, daring escapades and how the white and propertied
power structures of Texas have used them as enforcers and
protectors.Fleshing out key episodes and individuals in Texas
Ranger history, Swanson begins by covering their birth and
emergence as conquerors of the wild and violent Texas frontier,
as they skirmished with Apaches and Comanches and assisted
the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Beginning around 1870, the
Rangers transformed themselves from a frontier battalion into a
state police force. Although the Rangers found themselves
rocked by a series of
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