The Texas Sheriff

Author : Thad Sitton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134710
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texas Sheriff written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Sheriff takes a fresh, colorful, and insightful look at Texas law enforcement during the decades before 1960. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural Texas was a strange, often violent, and complicated place. Nineteenth-century lifestyles persisted, blood relationships made a difference, and racial apartheid was still rigidly enforced. Citizens expected their county sheriff to uphold local customs as well as state laws. He had to help constituents with their personal problems, which often had little or nothing to do with law enforcement. The rural sheriff served as his county’s “Mr. Fixit,” its resident “good old boy,” and the lord of an intricate rural society. Basing his interpretations on primary sources and extensive interviews, Thad Sitton explores the dual nature of Texas sheriffs, demonstrating their far-reaching power both to do good and to abuse the law.

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Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Sheriff written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563119420
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tarrant County Sheriff's Office written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thad Sitton
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ISBN 13 : 9780877190790
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas High Sheriffs written by Thad Sitton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James G. Dickson
Publisher : Amer Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896411319
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Texas Sheriff written by James G. Dickson and published by Amer Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugene Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560547778
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Sheriff written by Eugene Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Curt Thompson inherits the sheriff's star.

Author : Henry C. Fuller
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ISBN 13 : 9781258008970
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Texas Sheriff, a J Spradley written by Henry C. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vivid And Accurate Account Of Some Of The Most Notorious Murder Cases And Feuds In The History Of East Texas, And The Officers Who Relentlessly Pursued The Criminals Till They Were Brought To Justice And Paid Full Penalty Of The Law.

Author : James P. McCollom
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1640091262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Sheriff in Texas written by James P. McCollom and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon Best History Book of the Month This true crime story transports readers to a tumultuous time in Texas history—when the old ways clashed with the new—as it sheds light on police brutality, gun control, Mexican American civil rights, and much more “[A] riveting story of a time when sheriffs could get away with murder.” —Dallas Morning News Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns—the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old West justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point–blank, in the belly. Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more. Time magazine’s full–page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff’s extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from across America poured into Beeville’s tiny post office. Yet when a second violent incident threw Ennis into the crosshairs of public opinion once again, the uprising was orchestrated by an unlikely figure: his close friend and Beeville’s favorite son, Johnny Barnhart. Barnhart confronted Ennis in the election of 1952: a landmark standoff between old Texas, with its culture of cowboy bravery and violence, and urban Texas, with its lawyers, oil institutions, and a growing Mexican population. The town would never be the same again. The Last Sheriff in Texas is a riveting narrative about the postwar American landscape, an era grappling with the same issues we continue to face today. Debate over excessive force in law enforcement, Anglo–Mexican relations, gun control, the influence of the media, urban–rural conflict, the power of the oil industry, mistrust of politicians and the political process—all have surprising historical precedence in the story of Vail Ennis and Johnny Barnhart.

Author : Henry Clay Fuller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "A Texas Sheriff" written by Henry Clay Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Clay Fuller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
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Download or read book "A Texas Sheriff" written by Henry Clay Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: