History of the Texas Rangers

Allen Public Library Presents ... History of the Texas Rangers
July 25, 2013

Midwestern State University history professor Michael Collins talks about the history of the Texas Rangers as one of the most respected law enforcement units in American history. Collins is the author of Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861 and That Damned Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and the American West, 1883-1898.
Collins discusses his upcoming book on the "skinning wars" in South Texas in the 1870s. A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande (1863-1877) will tell how ranchers raided properties, killed cattle and took the hide.