A Private In The Texas Rangers
by John Miller Morris
$25 (334 page hardcover)

This book provides an intriguingly honest and informed focus on the life of an 1880s lawman.  The daily life of Private Miller, despite incidents of drama, is more convincingly focused on the drudgery of the effort required to impose order and the rule of law where it had been relatively rare. As one proceeds through the entries and the accompanying annotations, the slowly accumulating details of the life and times of the diarist begin to provide a richness of vicarious experience and the recovery of a lost world.  It expands from the diary of AT MiIler to the fellow rangers of Company B, then to descriptions of the surrounding land and communities.  26 black & white illustrations; 4 maps.