Tracking the Texas Ranger Historians

Bruce A. Glasrud has published more than thirty books, including the two-volume Tracking the Texas Rangers:The Nineteenth Century and The Twentieth Century (UNT Press) and The African American Experience in Texas. Harold J. Weiss Jr coedited (with Bruce Glasrud) the two-volume Tracking the Texas Rangers and is the author of Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald (UNT Press).

"[I]t is unique in that no other volume on the subject has collected together a group of individual current historians, serious researchers and scholars to write a series of essays on the main writer-historians of the Rangers who have published in the twentieth century and more recently. Here are substantive profiles resulting from archival research, biographies and autobiographies, and divided into specific themes and issues connected with the Rangers."--English Westerners Society "There have been many kinds of Rangers in Texas. Those who write about them, or pursue other popular avenues of communication, are no less diverse. This work makes that clear, but it also tells about their influences and impacts. Based on their personal perspectives and experiences, everyone interested in the Rangers has their favorite sources. Hopefully most of those are found here, but readers should take some time to read about the 'other side.' If the authors achieve their purpose, the material found here about Ranger historians will lead to more debate in a more informed manner."--from the foreword by Richard B. McCaslin "The most striking feature of the Rangers has been their ability to adapt to the different modes of life in Texas for several centuries. They fought for the flag when called upon to do their duty. They put felons into prisons in order to combat crime and disorder. They changed their methods of transportation from horses and wagons to railroad cars, motorized vehicles, and airplanes. And their weaponry became more automatic and deadly in shootouts."--from the Introduction