| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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Book Review

Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. By Robert M. Utley. (2002; New York: Berkeley Books, 2003. xiv + 370 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $16.00, paper.)

Four or five decades ago history professors often assigned their classes readers called "Problems Books." These books generally had subtitles that framed their "problem" in terms of polar extremes. John D. Rockefeller: Robber Baron or Industrial Statesman? (Boston, 1949) is one that comes to mind. Robert M. Utley's new study demonstrates how easy it would be to create one of those old problems books on his subject. The title could be "Texas Rangers: Courageous Heroes or Murderous Villains?" and the chief contributors would be historians Walter Prescott Webb and T. R. Fehrenbach on one hand and folklorist Américo Paredes and Chicano scholars Julian Samora, Joe Bërnal, and Albert Peña on the other. Utley's purpose, however, is to steer a course between the extremes and present a balanced picture of the legendary heroes/knaves of Texas history.

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