A twenty-first-century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that
does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities,
brutality, and corruption The Texas Rangers rode into existence in 1823,
when Texas was still part of Mexico, and continue today as one of the most
famous of all law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson
offers a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles both their epic,
daring escapades and how the white and propertied power structures of Texas
have used them as enforcers and protectors--