Robert Utley really has had his work cut out for him in following up on his 19th-century Texas Rangers book with this story of the Rangers of recent times. Of necessity, the post-1900 subject matter shifts from Western Americana to true crime. It is necessary for the author to trace the progress of the Rangers by following the tenures and politics of various governors. Even in the hands of a master historian such as Utley, this remains a story of a typical modern law enforcement agency, battl


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