Description |
xiii, 277 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Note |
"An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as "Rangers, Mounties, and the Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples, 1870-1885," Great Plains Quarterly 24, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 85-99. Reprinted by permission. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as "Rural Police and the Defense of the Cattleman's Empire in Texas and Canada, 1875-1900," Agricultural History 75, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 253-80. Copyright 2005 by the Agricultural History Society. Reprinted by permission. An earlier version of chapter 5 appeared as "Texas Rangers, Canadian Mounties, and the Policing of the Transnational Industrial Frontier, 1885-1910," Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Summer 2004): 167-91. Copyright by the Western History Association. Reprinted by permission." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: "similar organizations in other parts" -- Instruments of incorporation -- Subjugating indigenous groups -- Dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry -- Defending the cattleman's empire -- Policing the industrial frontier -- Epilogue: "deeds, real and imagined". |
Subject |
Police -- North America -- History.
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Texas Rangers -- History.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Texas -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Wars -- 1866-1895.
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ISBN |
0803260024 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780803260023 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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