Policing the Great Plains
Subtitle: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American frontier, 1875-1910
By: Andrew R. Graybill.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803260023
Subjects: Texas Rangers -- History.; Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- History.; Police -- North America -- History.
Notes: "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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "similar organizations in other parts"; title: Instruments of incorporation; title: Subjugating indigenous groups; title: Dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry; title: Defending the cattleman's empire; title: Policing the industrial frontier; title: Epilogue: "deeds, real and imagined".