Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Nineteenth Century

Contributors

330 Contributors Bob Boze Bell is Executive Editor of True West Publishing. As a noted speaker, writer, and illustrator, he continues to publicize the real and fictional Wests. Some of his books on Old West outlaws and lawmen, from Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp, have become classics. Donaly E. Brice is a well-known archivist at the Texas State Archives and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. An acknowledged expert on the Great Comanche Raid and a Reconstruction desperado, Cullen Montgomery Baker, Brice also co-authored The Governor’s Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873. Paul H. Carlson is professor emeritus of history at Texas Tech University. He is a Fellow of both the Texas State Historical Association and the West Texas Historical Association. Carlson has won numerous teaching awards, earned research and writing honors, and is co-author of Myth, Memory and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker. Michael L. Collins is Regents Professor of History at Midwestern State University. He authored a study of Theodore Roosevelt and the American West. Another memorable narrative is entitled Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulators on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846–1861. Tom Crum has had an impressive judicial and historical career. As a retired state district judge and a past president of both the West Texas and East Texas historical associations, he has combined the study of law, history, and folklore. Crum has published numerous articles and is co-author with Paul Carlson of a book about the recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker and the myths therein. Contributors ★ 331 James M. Day had a varied career, from being Director of the Texas State Archives to joining the faculty of the University of Texas at El Paso. A noted expert in the fields of English, history, and folklore , he won many awards with his publications. Two of his books are worth noting: a study of the literature of the Texas Meir expedition and a biography of Ranger Captain Clint Peoples. Bruce A. Glasrud is professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay, and retired dean of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University. A specialist in minorities in Texas, Western , and Southern history, Glasrud is the author/editor or co-author /editor of twenty books. Andrew R. Graybill earned a doctorate in history from Princeton University. His field of study is transnational borders in North America, including Rangers and Mounties. Graybill published Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875–1910. He taught at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and is currently the director of the Clements Center at Southern Methodist University. Stephen L. Hardin is professor of history at McMurray University in Abilene, Texas. He is the author of The Texas Rangers, the award-winning Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution , 1835–1836, and the editor of Lone Star: The Republic of Texas, 1836–1846 (1998). Distinguished for his readable style and his accessible approach to history, Dr. Hardin is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, an inductee of the prestigious Texas Institute of Letters, and a member of Western Writers of America. W. J. Hughes earned his Ph.D. degree in history at Texas Tech University and taught at Mankato State College in Minnesota. His eye for details in historical research can be seen in the biography, Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest. Richard B. McCaslin is professor and chair, Department of History, at the University of North Texas. McCaslin earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas and is a Fellow and Board mem- 332 ★ Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Nineteenth Century ber of the Texas State Historical Association. Among his numerous publications are Fighting Stock: John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas, Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, and At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association. Leon Metz has become one of the foremost experts on the history of Old West outlaws and gunmen. Among his many publications are two standard works in the field: Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman and John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas. Metz has served as an archivist and is past president of Western Writers of America. Rick Miller is a lawyer and a former local chief of police. He received his juris doctorate from Baylor University...