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Article: Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2009
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Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910. By Andrew R. Graybill. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 277. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-6002-3.)
Andrew R. Graybill's succinct exercise in comparative history is exemplary. His examination of two paramilitary constabularies with borderlands responsibilities is thoroughly grounded in the sources, well organized, and felicitously rendered. It will lend fresh dimension to discussions of the Texas Rangers (surely the entity of most interest to readers of this journal) and place Graybill among the foremost recent contributors to the ...