| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Law on the Last Frontier: Texas Ranger Arthur Hill. By S. E. Spinks. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxii, 265 pp. $28.50, ISBN 978-0-89672-619-2.)

In 1974, sixty-five-year-old Arthur Hill retired from the Texas Rangers after twenty-seven years of service performed primarily in west Texas. His career is chronicled in a biography by S. E. Spinks. A former journalist, she makes an important contribution to the history of Texas. Few works explore the Rangers in the twentieth century, and this biography gives an account unparalleled in its depth of the duties, difficulties, and triumphs of a "motorized" Ranger. Spinks shows the independence Rangers exercised while carrying out broad responsibilities, but she also details how closely the Rangers worked with local lawmen, customs officials, and Mexican law enforcement officers. This study is equally valuable for its contribution to our understanding of west Texas in the third quarter of the twentieth century, an era that witnessed fluctuating tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border and the expansion of drug traffic from Mexico into the United States.

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