Riding straight out of the pages of Western history, W.J.L.
Sullivan arrives, hat firmly planted on his head, to tell in his
own plain way about his time as a sergeant of the Texas Rangers.
The years were 1889 to 1901, and there was lawlessness enough on
the frontiers of Texas to occupy any able-bodied man with a horse,
a six-shooter, and a hard-headed sense of decency and order.
Rounding up cattle poachers, hanging loquacious murderers, leaping
into border skirmishes, watching the odd culprit wriggle free
through the "slick scheme" of an attorney, wrestling a buffalo and
losing a horse in the process: Sullivan relates the events of his
career with all the earnest candor, modest wit, and occasional
homespun moralizing of a man with a story that has to be told. In
his straight-spoken words we see the Texas rangers of yesterday,
riding out under the legendary Captain Bill McDonald, whose famous
adage, "One riot, one ranger, " suggests the wild spirit and
irrepressible toughness that Sullivan so amply documents.
Compulsively readable, as eventful and dramatic as any novel, his
book lets us watch history unfold in all its colorful, gritty
detail against the raw frontier of nineteenth-century Texas.
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