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EBOOK Lone Star Justice:The First Century of the Texas Rangers
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199923717
EAN: F2DFB19CEB
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Stron: 416
Data wydania: 2002
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From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in        fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In        Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred        years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey        or Larry McMurtry.The Rangers began in the 1820s as loose groups of citizen        soldiers, banding together to chase Indians and Mexicans on the raw Texas frontier.          Utley shows how, under the leadership of men like Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch, these        fiercely independent fighters were transformed into a well-trained, cohesive team.          Armed with a revolutionary new weapon, Samuel Colt's repeating revolver, they became        a deadly fighting force, whether battling Comanches on the plains or storming the        city of Monterey in the Mexican-American War. As the Rangers evolved from part-time        warriors to full-time lawmen by 1874, they learned to face new dangers, including        homicidal feuds, labor strikes, and vigilantes turned mobs. They battled train        robbers, cattle thieves and other outlaws--it was Rangers, for example, who captured        John Wesley Hardin, the most feared gunman in the West.Based on exhaustive research        in Texas archives, this is the most authoritative history of the Texas Rangers in        over half a century. It will stand alongside other classics of Western history by        Robert M. Utley--a vivid portrait of the Old West and of the legendary men who kept        the law on the lawless frontier.

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