August 5, 2005

White Hat, Black Tales

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

A Texas scholar digs into the dark truths about the role of the Texas Rangers in early-20th-century border wars

Article: Dueling Over History

Whether he gallops across TV screens on a steed named Silver or kickboxes drug dealers and other contemporary miscreants, the Texas Ranger is an iconic figure in American culture. But it has fallen to a Texas-based scholar named Benjamin H. Johnson, a 33-year-old assistant

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