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:: 185 :: Notes Series Editor’s Preface 1. See, for example, on Wyoming, John W. Davis, A Vast Amount of Trouble: A History of the Spring Creek Raid (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1994) and John W. Davis, Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005). 2. Rose contrasts the work of Robert Utley and other recent books following Walter Prescott Webb’s The Texas Rangers (1935) with Gary Clayton Anderson’s The Conquest of Texas (2005) and Mike Collins’s Texas Devils (2008) in the preface, giving readers an excellent understanding of the work of historians on the issue. 3. Also see Robert C. Ellickson, Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994). The author focused on ranchers in Shasta County, California , and their transactional society. The author did not have enemy deviants raiding livestock herds, but the law and economics study may interest some. 4. James Willard Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1956); The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers (Boston: Little, Brown, 1950); Law and the Social Order in the United States (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977); and for the hearty reader of legal history, Law and Economic Growth: The Legal History of the Lumber Industry in Wisconsin, 1836–1915 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964). I once asked Willard who he wrote the last book for and he replied, “For the five people who can understand it.” It is a deeply researched book on how law at the local level operates to solve social and economic problems. 5. John Phillip Reid, Law for the Elephant: Property and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail (San Marino: Huntington Library Press, 1980), 335. 6. John Phillip Reid, Policing the Elephant: Crime, Punishment, and Social Behavior on the Overland Trail (San Marino: Huntington Library Press, 1997), 192. 7. Bruce Thornton, Searching for Joaquin: Myth, Murieta, and History in California (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003), 159. 8. Ibid., 145. 9. Rose specifically delineates the recent scholarship on the Texas Rangers. Looking at Michael L. Collins’s Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846–1861 (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2008), readers will immediately note that the time and place of the two studies are quite different. 10. Thornton, Searching, 146. 11. James M. Smallwood, Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock, Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003), 127. Notes :: 186 Author’s Preface 1. Peter R. Rose, “Regional Perspectives on the Edwards Group of Central Texas: Geology, Geomorphology , Geohydrology, and Their Influence on Settlement History,” in Edwards Water Resources in Central Texas: Retrospective and Prospective, ed. Sue Hovorka (Austin: Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, 2004), CD-ROM, 12, 16. 2. Mary Hall Paterson, “I Remember,” 1947, unpublished manuscript in the author’s personal collection, 73. 3. From the Fort Worth Gazette, April 27, 1884, found in Frederica B. Wyatt, “Newspaper Excerpts ,” in Families of Kimble County, vol. 2 (Junction, TX: Kimble County Historical Commission , 1998). 4. The historians’ works are Ovie C. Fisher, It Occurred in Kimble and How: The Story of a Texas County (1937; repr., San Angelo, TX: Talley Press, 1984), and Walter P. Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense (1935; repr., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977). The memoirs are Dan W. Roberts, Rangers and Sovereignty (1914; repr., Austin, TX: State House Press, 1987), and James B. Gillett, Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875–1881 (1921; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976). 5. Mary Paterson Rose, Paterson family tradition communicated to the author, n.d. 6. Peter R. Rose, “Edwards Group, Surface and Subsurface, Central Texas,” in Report of Investigations , No. 74 (Austin: Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, 1972), 198. 7. Rose, “Regional Perspectives,” 1–18. Chapter 1 1. Theodore R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (New York: Collier Books, 1968), 572–73. 2. Charles M. Robinson, Frontier Forts of Texas (Houston: Lone Star Books / Gulf Publishing Company, 1986), 81–84. 3. Elizabeth Cruse Alvarez and Robert Plocheck, eds. Texas Almanac, 2008–2009 (Dallas: Dallas Morning News, 2008), 231, 236, 244, 289, 324, 335, 340, 345. 4. Robert M. Utley, If These Walls Could Speak: Historic Forts of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990), 12–13. 5. William H. Leckie, with Shirley A. Leckie, The Buffalo...

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