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P A R T O N E EMERGENCE OF A RANGER CAPTAIN But one thing seems clear to everyone who returns from field work: other people are other. They do not think the way we do. And if we want to understand their way of thinking, we should set out with the idea of capturing otherness. —Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. In this role, “Captain Bill” . . . mixed the gun-toting image of a frontier lawman with the savvy of a modern police investigator. —Harold J. Weiss, Jr., “Organized Constabularies: The Texas Rangers and the Early State Police Movement in the American Southwest.” More than any other captain, he was a showman, a colorful character, a selfpromoter who reveled in notoriety. —Robert Utley, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. Ever threatened, often shot, his gray eyes never lost their steadfast courage, and one by one he “nailed” the “bad men,” discouraged lawlessness, put a stop to killing and stealing, and generally “cleaned up” until “wild and woolly” Texas came to be as uninterestingly peaceful as a Connecticut community on Sunday. —Denver Post, Oct. 10, 1909. ...

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