Book Review: THE TEXAS RANGERS: WEARING the CINCO PESO 1821-1900
By Mike Cox
by Mike Cox
Who better to write an in-depth, two-volume history of the Texas Rangers, than award winning Texas writer Mike Cox?
The first volume, entitled The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso 1821-1900, was released by Forge in March 2008 to outstanding reviews. The work covers the first eighty years in Texas Ranger history. Cox begins with the Rangers' humble start when their only duty was to defend settlers against the notorious Karankawa Indians. He then continues through their years fighting everyone from outlaws and banditos to Union Soldiers and each other.
Cox is careful not to glamorize the Rangers. He presents their triumphs and failures, their heroics and their controversies. This is not a fairy tale, but rather an all-inclusive recounting.
The Texas Rangers reads like a sweeping novel. The stories, based on ten years of research, is both entertaining and enlightening. Coupled with attention to detail, and Cox's passion the topic.
As a former spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety and journalist for the Austin American-Statesman, story-telling and Texas Law Enforcement seem to be in Mike Cox's blood. At the end of this phenomenal journey through Texas history, readers are left wondering, "What next" and "When". Fear not, the second volume is set for release May, 2009.
ISBN: 0312873867
ISBN-13: 9780312873868
Format: Hardcover, 496pp
Publisher: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates
Published by AD
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- The Texas Rangers reads like a sweeping novel.
- Cox is a former spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety
- the second volume is set for release May, 2009.