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Policing the Great Plains - Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Policing the Great Plains - Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late
nineteenth century, the Texas Rangers and Canada's North-West
Mounted Police were formed to bring the resource-rich hinterlands
at either end of the Great Plains under governmental control.
Native and rural peoples often found themselves squarely in the
path of this westward expansion and the law enforcement agents that
led the way. Though separated by nearly two thousand miles, the
Rangers and Mounties performed nearly identical functions,
including subjugating Indigenous groups; dispossessing peoples of
mixed ancestry; defending the property of big cattlemen; and
policing industrial disputes. Yet the means by which the two forces
achieved these ends sharply diverged; while the Rangers often
relied on violence, the Mounties usually exercised restraint, a
fact that highlights some of the fundamental differences between
the U.S. and Canadian Wests. Policing the Great Plains presents the
first comparative history of the two most famous constabularies in
the world.
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