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The Governor's Hounds: The Texas State Police, 1870–1873

Autor Barry A. Crouch, Donaly E. Brice
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2011
In the tumultuous years following the Civil War, violence and lawlessness plagued the state of Texas, often overwhelming the ability of local law enforcement to maintain order. In response, Reconstruction-era governor Edmund J. Davis created a statewide police force that could be mobilized whenever and wherever local authorities were unable or unwilling to control lawlessness. During its three years (1870–1873) of existence, however, the Texas State Police was reviled as an arm of the Radical Republican party and widely condemned for being oppressive, arrogant, staffed with criminals and African Americans, and expensive to maintain, as well as for enforcing the new and unpopular laws that protected the rights of freed slaves.
Drawing extensively on the wealth of previously untouched records in the Texas State Archives, as well as other contemporary sources, Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice here offer the first major objective assessment of the Texas State Police and its role in maintaining law and order in Reconstruction Texas. Examining the activities of the force throughout its tenure and across the state, the authors find that the Texas State Police actually did much to solve the problem of violence in a largely lawless state. While acknowledging that much of the criticism the agency received was merited, the authors make a convincing case that the state police performed many of the same duties that the Texas Rangers later assumed and fulfilled the same need for a mobile, statewide law enforcement agency.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292747708
ISBN-10: 0292747705
Pagini: 326
Ilustrații: 10 b&w photographs, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

The late Barry A. Crouch was Professor of History at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., for twenty-one years. His books include The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans and The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction.
A well-known historian and lecturer who served as Reference Archivist at the Texas State Archives, Donaly E. Brice works in retirement for the Archives as Senior Research Assistant. He also coauthored Cullen Montgomery Baker: Reconstruction Desperado with Barry A. Crouch.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Murder: An Inalienable State Right
  • Chapter 2: An "Untiring Enemy to All Evil-Doers": The Formation of the State Police
  • Chapter 3: "An Affair Only Equalled by the Exploits of the Comanches": The Hill County Imbroglio
  • Chapter 4: "The Dark Recesses of Their Hearts": The State Police and Martial Law in Walker County
  • Chapter 5: A Shamelessly Disloyal Community: The State Police and Limestone/Freestone Counties
  • Chapter 6: The Job Is Relentless: State Policemen in Action
  • Chapter 7: Lampasas: The Death of the State Police
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Essay on Sources
  • Roster of the State Police
  • Index

Recenzii

The book is blessed to have been in the hands of two historians known for the integrity of their research and for their respective gifts as storytellers. As a result, what might have been a dry treatise on militia systems and contrary politics is instead an intelligent read on a topic that fills an important niche in Texas history.

In The Governor’s Hounds, Crouch and Brice offer another reasonable and informative monograph… The book offers readers “an even-handed history, neither ignoring the faults, peccadilloes, or even murderous ways of individuals on the force, nor failing to point out those policeman who served honorably and carefully discharged their obligations."

Descriere

Drawing on a wealth of previously unused primary sources, this book offers the first full-scale assessment of the much-reviled Texas State Police and its role in maintaining law and order in Reconstruction Texas.