| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers. By Robert M. Utley. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xvi, 400 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-515444-3.)

In the prologue to Lone Star Lawmen, Robert M. Utley indicates that he intended to write the most—if not the only—comprehensive history of the twentieth-century Texas Rangers. He has succeeded admirably. There have been many Ranger histories, such as Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense (1935) and Charles M. Robinson III's The Men Who Wear the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers (2000). But whether because of the era (Webb's book was first published in 1935) or the publisher's requirements (as in Robinson's case), the bulk of those histories has centered on the nineteenth century. Other works on the modern era have covered individual Rangers or events, but not the history of the twentieth-century Rangers as a whole. Utley has corrected this, describing the evolution of the Rangers from frontier lawmen into a modern investigative and enforcement agency. His research is exhaustive and thorough, and the book is clear, informative, and entertaining.

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