The Men Who War the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers (60 page)

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
: Excerpt from
The Personal Correspondence of
Sam Houston, Vol. I,
p. 155. Reprinted by permission of University of North Texas Press.

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
: Excerpts from
Charles Goodnight: Cowman and
Plainsman
by J. Evetts Haley,
Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, and
Trails and Trials of a Texas Ranger
by William Warren Sterling. All material reprinted by permission of University of Oklahoma Press.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
: Excerpts from
Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of
McNelly’s Rangers
by George Durham as told to Clyde Wantland. Copyright © 1962 by Clyde Wantland. Copyright renewed 1990 by Shirley Wantland Seeley. Excerpts from
Rip Ford’sTexas
by John Salmon Ford, edited by Stephen B. Oates. Copyright © 1963 and copyright renewed 1991 by Stephen B. Oates. Excerpts from
Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins
edited by John Holmes Jenkins III. Copyright © 1958 and renewed 1986 by John H. Jenkins. Excerpts from
“Facts as I Remember Them”: The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors
by Rufe LeFors, edited by John Allen Peterson. Copyright © 1986 by University of Texas Press. Excerpts from
The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense
by Walter Prescott Webb. Copyright © 1935, 1965. Copyright renewed 1993. All material reprinted by permission of University of Texas Press.

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
: Excerpts from
Six Years with the Texas Rangers
by James B. Gillett. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

About the Author

C
HARLES
M. R
OBINSON
III was born in Harlingen, Texas, and grew up on the Texas-Mexico border, where much of the action in this book occurred. He received a bachelor’s degree from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, and a master’s degree from the University of Texas-Pan American. His book
Bad Hand: A
Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie
received the Texas Historical Commission’s T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, and
Satanta: The Life and Death of a War Chief
led to his being made an honorary member of the Chief Satanta (White Bear) Descendants. He lives in San Benito, Texas, and teaches U.S. history at South Texas Community College in McAllen, Texas. He is a member of the Western Writers of America, the Texas State Historical Association, Montana Historical Society, and various other organizations. He is presently writing a biography of Maj. Gen. George Crook.

Also by Charles M. Robinson III

Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie
The Buffalo Hunters
Satanta: The Life and Death of a War Chief
A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War

Copyright © 2000 by Charles M. Robinson III

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Robinson, Charles M.
The men who wear the star: the story of the Texas Rangers /  Charles M. Robinson III.
      p.     cm.
   Includes bibliographical references.
   
    1.  Texas Rangers—History.   2.  Texas Rangers—Biography.   3.  Texas— History—1846–1950.   4.  Texas—History—To 1846.   5.  Frontier and pioneer life—Texas.   6.  Law enforcement—Texas—History.
I. Title.
F391.R647    2000      976.4—dc21        99-27160

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