RICHARD B. McCASLIN, TSHA Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas, is the author of Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862; Lee in the Shadow of Washington; Fighting Stock: John S. "Rip" Ford in Texas; and Sutherland Springs, Texas (UNT Press).
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"Any student of the Texas Rangers will find this biography a worthy addition to their reading list. Well-written and thoroughly researched, Wright's life and personality come to life with anecdotes and stories that read like the best Western literature."--WWA Roundup "He had the record of having served as a Ranger under seven Texas governors. . . . This is a spell-binding book, one that all fans of Texas Ranger history will enjoy."--Wild West History Association Journal "McCaslin's strong suit is prodigious research--this is solidly based on archival sources. While not glossing over Wright's weaknesses and prejudices, McCaslin has produced an overdue and balanced biography of Will Wright."--Charles Harris, co-author of The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920 "The author offers a long-needed account of the life of legendary Texas lawman William L. Wright, whose career spanned times of great turmoil and transition, from the old frontier of horseback Rangers hunting cattle rustlers and gunslinging outlaws to the new frontier of motorized Rangers chasing machine-gun toting bank robbers and brazen bootleggers. This is a meticulously researched and carefully crafted story."--Michael Collins, author of Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861 "This book will be extremely significant. As the first such biography, McCaslin and his research will almost certainly be cited in any future Ranger work mentioning Wright and his career."--Darren L. Ivey, author of the three-volume Ranger Ideal series (UNT Press)