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Law on the last frontier : Texas Ranger Arthur Hill

Title: Law on the last frontier : Texas Ranger Arthur Hill / S.E. Spinks.
Author: Spinks, S. E.
Publication: Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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xx, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Honed by a decade in harsh brush country, Arthur Hill's Ranger skills earned him a 1957 promotion to sergeant of Ranger Company B in Dallas. Bringing his methods to bear on urban crimes, Hill headed the Rangers assigned to the Lone Star Steel Strike and investigated the "Dixie Mafia," KKK, and Dallas/Fort Worth gambling syndicates. Yet after only a year, and despite imminent promotion to captain, Hill knew his place and his heart were back in the Big Bend - where rampant drug trade was altering the border irrevocably from what had remained the same for hundreds of years. There he would continue to serve until mandatory retirement."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-251) and index.

Contents

1. In the Shadow of Santa Anna Mountain -- 2. "Five Hundred Dollars Is Too Damn Much for a Highway Patrolman" -- 3. The Last Frontier -- 4. Rio Grande Rendezvous -- 5. Brush Country Ranger -- 6. "They Rode for the Brand" -- 7. The Borderland -- 8. "El Corrido de Jose Villalobos" -- 9. Doin' Time in Big D -- 10. The Lone Star Steel Strike -- 11. Times Are a-Changin' -- 12. A Harsh Land -- 13. "Plumo o Oro" -- 14. The Last Roundup -- 15. "A Beautiful Challenge"

ISBN

0896726193 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780896726192 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007025003
40015085191

OCLC

150255234
ocn150255234
SCSB-5390056

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Columbia University Libraries