Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers

Based on unprecedented access to Rangers archives, Lone Star Lawmen chronicles one hundred years of high adventure as told by one of the nation's most respected Western historians. This definitive portrait of the Texas Rangers stretches from the days of the Mexican Revolution to Waco and the recent bloody standoff with "Republic of Texas" militia, recounting events in between such as the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde and the tracking of the "Phantom Killer" of Texarkana.

Highlighting the gradual evolution of this celebrated force, Robert M. Utley reveals how the outlaw-pursuing horseback riders of yesteryear became a modern law enforcement agency combating urban crime in Texas's big cities, assisted by the latest advances in forensic science-yet never losing their toughness and independent spirit-and how the Rangers will continue to bring justice to the West in the twenty-first century.