The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution : the bloodiest decade, 1910-1920 /

The Decade 1910-1920 was the bloodiest in the controversial history of one of the most famous law enforcement agencies in the world-the Texas Rangers. Much of the bloodshed was along the thousand-mile Texas/Mexico border because these were the years of the Mexican Revolution. Charles Harris III and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Charles H. (Charles Houston)
Other Authors: Sadler, Louis R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2004.
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The Texas State Ranger Force
  • On the defensive
  • The Colquitt years, 1911-1915
  • Revolution in Mexico
  • Enforcing neutrality
  • The revolution intensifies
  • International complications
  • The Ferguson years, 1915-1917
  • Ferguson Rangers
  • The Plan de San Diego
  • The Bandit War (July-August)
  • The Bandit War (September-October)
  • The Plan de San Diego resurfaces
  • The Hobby years, 1917-1921
  • World War
  • Wartime Rangers
  • More Wartime Rangers
  • Hanson's empire
  • Postwar problems
  • The investigation
  • Aftermath
  • Peace on the border
  • Appendix: The Texas Rangers, 1910-1921.