Texas Ranger Andrew Jackson Sowell fought in the 1840 Battle of Plum Creek against the Comanches. He also wrote about his time with the Rangers. He's part of a new book by Doug J. Swanson, titled ...

As Texas changed in the mid-20th century, so did Rangers, who were transformed into a force of professional state police, pursuing gangsters, kidnappers and lawbreakers of all types.” ...

Residents can take their furry friends to the Canines and Coffee event from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the Downtown Arlington ...

In sum, according to Swanson, the Texas Rangers “served the interests of the moneyed and powerful while suppressing the poor and disenfranchised. They have been the army of Texas’s ruling class.

THE TEXAS RANGERS by Walter Prescott Webb. 583 pages. University of Texas. $10. They fought grim odds and knew no fear, They kept their honor high and clear, And, facing arrows, guns, and knives, ...

In his 1935 opus The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, the historian Walter Prescott Webb anatomized the typical Texas Ranger as “essentially a fighting man.” In his foreword to ...

One book you won’t find in the gift shop at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame in Waco is Doug Swanson’s “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers.” ...

Eric Nadel, voice of the Texas Rangers, will host a story hour at the George W. Hawkes Downtown Library in Arlington, ...

"There is a mystique to Texas Rangers that has held over the years," says Patterson, who wrote the thriller ($28, out Monday, Aug. 13 from Little, Brown) with Andrew Bourelle.

Depending on how one reads history, the Texas Rangers turn 200 this year. In 1823, Stephen F. Austin, leader of the American colonists in Texas, hired a militia of 10 frontiersmen to fight the ...