The Texas sheriff: lord of the county line
United States history, Police and military
Human-narrated audio
Summary
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 remained rigidly enforced. Citizens expected their county sheriffs to uphold local customs as well as state laws. The rural sheriff served as his county's "Mr. Fixit," its resident "good old boy," and the lord of an intricate rural society. Contains some violence