Law on the Last Frontier: Texas Ranger Author Hill

In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes in his working life as a Texas Ranger from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle to candle wax, or giving horseback pursuit across unforgiving terrain, often into Mexico, Hill found himself immersed day to day in a world that straddled centuries as well as cultures. Promotion to sergeant of Ranger Company B in 1957 took Hill to Dallas, where he headed the Ranger contingency in the Lone Star Steel Strike and investigated the "Dixie Mafia," KKK, and Dallas/Fort Worth gambling syndicates. Yet he knew his place and his heart were back in the Big Bend, where rampant drug trade was altering the border irrevocably from what had remained the same for hundreds of years. The author pays particular attention to methods and techniques employed by Rangers during that little-documented time. In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes in his working life as a Texas Ranger from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle to candle wax, or giving horseback pursuit across unforgiving terrain, often into Mexico, Hill found himself immersed day to day in a world that straddled centuries as well as cultures. Promotion to sergeant of Ranger Company B in 1957 took Hill to Dallas, where he headed the Ranger contingency in the Lone Star Steel Strike and investigated the "Dixie Mafia," KKK, and Dallas/Fort Worth gambling syndicates. Yet he knew his place and his heart were back in the Big Bend, where rampant drug trade was altering the borderirrevocably from what had remained the same for hundreds of years. The author pays particular attention to methods and techniques employed by Rangers during that little-documented time.