| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.2 | The History Cooperative

*Law on the Last Frontier: Texas Ranger Arthur Hill.* By S. E. Spinks. Foreword by Robert M. Utley. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xx + 265 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $28.50.)
The Texas Rangers have a bibliography longer than the arm of the law, but the vast majority of books about this famed crime-fighting organization deal with the frontier era rangers of the nineteenth century. Finally, with the twenty-first century well under way, that's beginning to change.	1
Spinks has written a solid book on the life and career of her husband's grandfather, twentieth-century ranger Arthur Hill. Hill served from 1947 to 1974 and with the exception of a stint as sergeant of Company B in Dallas, he spent his entire career in Alpine. For those who don't know much about Texas, Hill's duty station is what inspired the book's title: The Trans-Pecos country of Texas is the state's last frontier—miles and miles of not much but rugged scenery. The area Hill had to cover as a ranger (the same area the ranger now stationed in Alpine still polices) is bigger than several states.	. . .

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