The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County Line

by Thad Sitton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806134712
• ISBN13: 9780806134710
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.7"