Webb's classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935. This edition is a reproduction of the original Houghton Mifflin edition.
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- They Rode Straight Up to Death: A Preface
- I. Texas: A Conflict of Civilizations
- II. Out of the Revolution
- III. The Rangers and the Republic
- IV. From Cherokee to Comanche
- V. The Captain Comes: John C. Hays
- VI. The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War
- VII. First Years in the Union
- VIII. The Bloody Years, 1858-1859
- IX. The Cortinas War on the Rio Grande
- X. Sam Houston's Grand Plan
- XI. The State Police
- XII. McNelly and His Men in Southwest Texas
- XIII. McNelly and the War of Las Cuevas
- XIV. McNelly's Successors: Lee Hall and John Armstrong
- XV. The Frontier Battalion: Major John B. Jones
- XVI. The El Paso Salt War
- XVII. Sam Bass: Texas's Beloved Bandit
- XVIII. The End of the Indian Trail: The Rangers in the Far West
- XIX. The Closed Frontier: Last Services of the Frontier Battalion
- XX. The Texas Rangers in the Twentieth Century
- XXI. Revolution, World War, and Prohibition
- XXII. Frank Hamer: Modern Texas Ranger
- XXIII. Some Adventures of a Ranger Historian
- Bibliography
- Index
