Texas Constables
Subtitle: A Frontier Heritage
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780896724242
Subjects: Texas - Local History; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Police Science; History - U.S.; United States - State & Local - West; History: American; United States - State & Local - General; Texas; Constables; History; Law enforcement
First sentence: According to scholars, the word constable derives apparently from the Latin comes stabuli, which means master of the horse, master of the stables, or count of the stables.
Description: "Though a host of Texas Rangers, U.S. marshals, and even town marshals populate the legends and annals of law enforcement, the stories and exploits of constables, an equally significant group of peace officers, have gone mostly unheralded. In a long-overdue examination, Allen G. Hatley traces Texas constables to their roots in medieval England and colonial America and chronicles a rich history from January 1823, when a constable was appointed as the first law-enforcement officer in Stephen F.

Austin's colony."--BOOK JACKET.