The opening two sentences of John Boessenecker’s Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, The Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde (Thomas Dunne Books, $29.95) sums up its subject: “Texas bred tough men, and none came any tougher than Frank Hamer. He was to the Lone Star State what Wyatt Earp was to Arizona and what Wild Bill Hickok was to Kansas.”
Boessenecker, one of the handful of current great Western historians, delves deep into Hamer’s life and finds a superior lawman who
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