Review of A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande

Authors

George T. Diaz, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

4-2019

Abstract

Michael L. Collins’s A Crooked River is a continuation of his book Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande (University of Oklahoma Press, 2010). Where his earlier book examined conflict on the lower Rio Grande from the U.S. invasion in 1846 to 1861, Crooked River considers the region from the U.S. Civil War through the end of Reconstruction. Collins provides a history of the region in the midst of upheaval and focuses particularly on “lawlessness” and violent policing (5). The book’s self-stated goal is to provide “the story Walter Prescott Webb never told” [End Page 471] (12), meaning Collins seeks to examine Texas Rangers’ and the Anglo-controlled Texas government’s efforts to subjugate the borderlands in a more critical light.

Comments

Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1353/swh.2019.0037

Recommended Citation

Díaz, George T. Review of A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877, by Michael L. Collins. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 122, no. 4 (2019): 471-472. doi:10.1353/swh.2019.0037.

First Page

471

Last Page

472

Publication Title

Southwestern Historical Quarterly

DOI

10.1353/swh.2019.0037