"Death of a Texas Ranger "is the thrilling, action-packed story of
the murder of Texas Ranger John Green by Cesario Menchaca, one of
three Rangers of Mexican descent under Green's command. Immediately
word spread that the killing may have been the botched outcome of a
contract taken out on Menchaca's life by the notorious Gabriel
Marnoch, a local naturalist who had run up against the law himself.
But was it? Much more than just a story about a tragic frontier
killing, it is the story of an era. The events leading up to the
murder and Green's son's decades' long quest for justice for his
father's killer exemplify the chaotic frontier society in Texas
after the Civil War, a time fraught with political turmoil and
cultural clashes. Amidst that chaos, the virgin landscape of Texas
was a magnet to those interested in the natural sciences in the
nineteenth century, an era often referred to as the Age of Darwin.
The clash between the seemingly pastoral landscape with its
offerings for science and the brutal history of the region ties
this very readable regional history into the larger American story.
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