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.

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:

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:

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:

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:

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.

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.

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.

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:

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:

Download or read book A Texas Sheriff written by Henry Clay Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas Sheriff s Deadly Mission written by Karen Whiddon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can fear of repeating past mistakes Hinder a sheriff’s search for a serial killer? Rayna Coombs has enough on her plate, juggling single motherhood and working as a sheriff. So she's determined to resist the white-hot desire she feels for Parker Norton. But when Parker enlists Rayna's help to find a missing friend, she can't ignore the sparks flying between them. As passion flares, though, bodies start turning up. Can Rayna and Parker track a lethal killer while guarding their own hearts? From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama.

Download or read book The No 1 Sheriff in Texas written by Patricia Thayer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randell men are hard to resist. Hired to protect and serve, Detective Brandon Randell wears his hat low and his badge polished. Randell men love for a lifetime. After Brandon rescues Nora Donnelly and her young son, they remind him there could be more to life than duty. And Randell men never give up! Running from her past, Nora has bumped into her future. She plans to run again soon…but not if Brandon can help it!

Download or read book Harris County Sheriff s Department 1837 2005 written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sheriff written by Angi Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the West Texas Watchmen. “A smashing beginning! . . . The Sheriff is tightly plotted; the action is breathtaking and the characters captivating.” —Fresh Fiction Sheriff Pete Morrison knows the secret in his past could destroy his father. Yet instead of resigning his job and exposing the lie, he finds himself protecting Andrea Allen—a beautiful astronomer who witnessed a gun-smuggling operation and a college student’s abduction. Determined to be independent, a relationship with her conflicted protector isn’t in the cards. No matter how safe she feels in Pete’s strong arms. But when things take a turn for the worse and Andrea exchanges herself for the abducted student, only Pete can save her from the horrible fate that awaits her. “Morgan not only has an independent and quirky heroine, but an adorably quirky—and steamy—romance between the hero and heroine. While the playful banter was a nice addition, the storyline also felt fresh and full of intrigue.” —Romantic Times

Download or read book Blue Illicit and Unspoken written by Faith Chatham and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crooks wore badges in Longview, Texas in the 1970s. In Blue, Illicit and Unspoken, a novel by Faith Chatham, Sheriff Wade Wallace is adept at exploiting peoples' emotional and economic vulnerabilities to draw them into the vortex of the multi-million dollar crime syndicate he operates out of the Court House (similar to one operated by Gregg County Sheriff Tom Welch in the late 1970s.) Faith creates fictitious characters to tell the story of how people in a small city are shaken when a popular sheriff's deputy, Sonny Williams, dies in the County Crime Lab, from, what may or may not be, a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The author dedicates the book to Sheriff Welch's deputy Wayne Gill, whose death mirrored similar suspicious circumstances as the fictitious character Deputy Sonny Williams. This is a novel about how individuals respond when confronted with information, rumors, or suspicion. Some work meticulously to distinguish innuendo from fact, and to move beyond hearsay, to the evidence which can be used in court. It's about how frightened people hide from what they see, hear, and know. It's about how people seek out friends whom they trust when things are murky and uncertain, and local elected officials and law enforcement cannot be trusted.It is the story of people getting caught in webs others spin. It is the story about how those who care for them, work to help keep them alive and to free them. It is about a teenage boy's obsession with his prized vintage motorcycle which places him in the crosshair of a deadly dangerous corrupt Sheriff's department. The novel is set against a backdrop of crime and public corruption, similar to that which led to the 1979 conviction of the Gregg County Sheriff Tom Welch, a County Commissioner, two deputies and a Justice of the Peace, for public corruption and conspiracy to commit murder.

Download or read book Country Cop written by Barry L. Goodson and published by North Texas Crime and Criminal. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book is author's memoir about his years as a Deputy Sheriff in Parker County, Texas. He served as a patrol officer, public relations officer, and as a member of the Crimes Against Children division, among other duties"--