Much has been written about peace officers, including a host of stories about Texas Rangers, U.S. marshals, and many town marshals from years past. The history and exploits of constables, another large group of peace officers, have remained largely untold. This book traces in some detail the history of Texas constables, from January 1823, when the first law enforcement officers, two constables, were appointed in Stephen F. Austin’s Colony, to the present day. In addition, a brief history of the origin of the office in medieval France and England and its role in colonial America is given in an ... View More...
"The Arizona Rangers" is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published and fills a sizable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. Bill O'Neal's enthusiasm for his subject and his respect for those remarkable men who wore the five-pointed star are apparent in every word of his thoroughly researched, well written manuscript. He has accurately portrayed the story of the Arizona Rangers against an authentic background of turn-of-the-century Arizona. 222 pages, indexed. View More...
251 pages, History of the Abilene Police Department. The one-volume history of the Abilene Police Department from 1881-1993 by those who have faithfully served the citizens of Abilene, the officers of the Abilene Police Department/ Photographs View More...
Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage. Others used their positions as cover for their criminal activities.The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West.Some of them did good work enforcing the law when that was their job. Other... View More...
544 pages, index. Family lore claimed his ancestor was murdered in Mississippi. Newspapers and court records said the man and four other victims were killed and incinerated in his remote country store. But the case was never solved. Now, after 30 years of investigating, the great great grandson of the slain carpetbagger - whose charred remains were "only a few bones" - reveals what really happened at Rolling Fork Landing on that night of March 4, 1873. And his conclusion is not what you expect! View More...
This book presents a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and entertaining history of United States marshals in New Mexico and Arizona during the tumultuous territorial years. Included in the story are notable lawmen such as John Pratt, John E. Sherman, and Creighton M. Foraker and gunfighters like Billy the Kid, "Doc" Holliday, and the Earp Brothers. With detailed accounts of many other lesser-known lawmen and criminals, Ball gives a well-rounded history of the mundane as well as the spectacular incidents in the lives of these lawmen during the unstable territorial years. 315 pages, indexe... View More...
This book is about the officers that have served and officers that continue to serve in the years 1792 to 1969. Interesting history. 138 pages, indexed. View More...
The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, on November 28, 1942. It is the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history, claiming 492 lives, and the second-deadliest single-building fire after the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903. 84 Indexed Pages. @ View More...
This book is a reprint of an extremely scarce, out-of-print 1931 edition, with added section of rare photographs of frontiersmen with whom Captain Thomas H. Rynning came in conflict. Capt. Rynning was without a doubt one of the most colorful and exciting personalities of the American West. His life-story, as told to Al Cohn and Joe Chisholm, is as fascinating a tale as ever came out of the Frontier era; an era in which run-of-the-mill heroes stood little chance. He was a cowboy, an Indian fighter, an officer in the Roosevelt Rough Riders, penitentiary warden and captain of the Arizona Rangers.... View More...
For decades following its publication in 1935, "The Texas Rangers" stood as "the beginning, middle, and end of the subject", in the words of J. Frank Dobie. Walter Prescott Webb blended stories told by the Rangers of his day with historical records to chronicle the first century of this fabled law enforcement agency. 584 pages, indexed. View More...
