The Texas Rangers: Men of Action & Valor

by Mike Cox

Brief history of Texas's legendary law enforcement officers

144 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1992

About the author

I am the author of 15 nonfiction books, the most recent being "Time of the Rangers" (New York: Forge Books, 2009), the second of my two-volume history of the Texas Rangers. Also just out is "Historic Photos of Texas Oil," (Nashville: Turner Publishing), a coffeetable book containing some 200 vintage photos from the oil patch. My other books include a study of Texas disasters, three other books on the Texas Rangers, one true crime story, a biography, a memoir and three local histories, as well as numerous magazine articles, essays and introductions for other books. I have been an elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 1993.

My byline regularly appears in a number of national and statewide magazines and I have been an award-winning newspaper reporter for nearly 20 years, most of that time with the Austin American-Statesman.

Reviews

[Dana Kraft · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a disclaimer, I should say that I've read more than my fair share of books about frontier history across the US. That being said...

I'm afraid I couldn't finish this one. Cox certainly doesn't sugar-coat the activities of the early Rangers, which means he's recounting a heck of a lot of killin' - some justified, some maybe not-so-much. Without much additional color added about the people involved, I'm 100 pages in and I just can't take much more frontier depredation.

[QuesterMark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun read. Really a book for kids, but it pleasantly provided some stories about the Texas Rangers. I'm trying to get my wife to purchase it for the library at her school. She's the librarian.

[Micah Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

i liked this book because its about the old west

[Johnny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful history of the 19th century years of the finest law enforcement organization in history!