"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."
Introduction: "similar organizations in other parts"
Instruments of incorporation
Subjugating indigenous groups
Dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry
Defending the cattleman's empire
Policing the industrial frontier
Epilogue: "deeds, real and imagined".
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Policing the Great Plains : Rangers, Mounties, and the North American frontier, 1875-1910 by Andrew R. Graybill. ISBN 9780803260023. Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
