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Chargement... Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangerspar Robert M. Utley
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Hailed as ""a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same,"" Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now, in the eagerly anticipated conclusion, Lone Star Lawmen, Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers, this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West. Based on unprecedented access to Ranger archives, this fast-paced narrative stretches from the days of the Mexican Revolution (where atrocities against Mexican Americans marked the nadir of Ranger Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Apologetic in tone, the majority of the text is spent on Rangers at the turn of the century with no positive mention of the cases which made them famous. Utley spends far too much time documenting and rehashing conspiracy theories which previous historians covered far more accurately.
Utley fails to differentiate between critical details such as the difference between the Texas Rangers and State Police. He begins this volume with the assertion that most reference material has "mysteriously" disappeared and continues in that vein. Where documentation has been noted, it comes from questionable sources such as daily newspapers. Any documentation from the Texas Rangers Museum and Hall of Fame is conspicuously absent.
Utley never does fulfill his promise of bringing the history of the Texas Rangers into the modern era. the 1930s through the 1970s are covered in a single chapter with another for 1970 onward. There appears to have been no actual effort to obtain modern resources or talk to today's Rangers.
This is a disappointing read, lacking in scholarship and objectivity. I expected better of this author. ( )