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Winter, 2008
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Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875–1910. By Andrew R. Graybill. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xi + 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.)
      Andrew Graybill's eagerly awaited monograph comparing the Texas Rangers and the North-West Mounted Police, the two constabularies in charge of opposite ends of the Great Plains in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, does not disappoint. At first glance the Rangers and Mounties might not seem to have much in common; their differences are certainly profound and not overlooked here. Nevertheless, Graybill also does an excellent job of teasing out their startling similarities. . . .
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