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.39.Paine, McDonald, 122 23.See also Seymour, IPCH, I, 22.40.For example, see Mabry to McDonald, Jan.18, 1896, LPB-AG-AGR.Event: El Paso prizefighting affair.41.Although Adjutant General Wilburn H.King frowned upon the use ofdetectives in the 1880s, state officials still employed in that decade Rangersand the operatives of private detective agencies (like the Pinkerton NationalDetective Agency).They went underground to search for those committingillegal acts by cutting fences made of barbed wire.See Adj.Gen.King to Gov.O.M.Roberts, Apr.11, 1882, GC-AGR; Frank Morn, The Eye That NeverSleeps : A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (Bloomington: Indi-ana University Press, 1982); and Utley, Lone Star Justice, 233 39.One of thebetter descriptions of the traits needed by an undercover agent came from thepen of Battalion Quartermaster Sieker.See Sieker to Sheriff N.H.Corder,Junction City, Mar.24, 1891, LPB-Q-RR-AGR.The rise of the detective willbe found in Friedman, Crime and Punishment in American History, 203 9.42.Paine, McDonald, 329.43.The changing nature of police work in this country is explored in WilliamB.Secrest, Dark and Tangled Threads of Crime: San Francisco s Famous Police{ }3 1 4 NOTESDetective, Isaiah W.Lees (Sanger, CA: Word Dancer Press, 2003); and SamuelWalker, A Critical History of Police Reform: The Emergence of Professionalism(Lexington, MA: D.C.Heath, 1977).44.Utley, Lone Star Justice, 280.Similar sentiments are expressed by other histor-ical writers.See, for example, Evan Anders, Boss Rule in South Texas: The Progres-sive Era (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982), 127.At one point McDonaldshowed compassion.He wrote the governor that a Panhandle convict should bepardoned.McDonald to Gov.Charles A.Culberson, July 8, 1896, GR.45.McDonald to Capt.E.M.Phelps, Adjutant General s Office, Oct.6, 1900(quotation), GC-AGR.46.Ibid.to Mabry, Sept.30, 1891, GC-AGR.McDonald did not want torecruit a person who just wanted to carry a gun.Ibid., Feb.10, 1897, GC-AGR.At one point he noted that a future replacement for a Ranger shouldunderstand the mexican lingo. Ibid.to Hulen, July 5, 1905, GC-AGR.47.MRCB for July 1891 (quotations), RR-AGR.Texans did complain aboutthe actions of Company B.One critic wrote that McDonald is so constitutedthat he thinks that a man who does not like the ranger force is a scoundrel andcan t be too badly treated by them. E.G.Pendleton, Panhandle land agent,to Mabry, Jan.28, 1893, GC-AGR.For the theory and practice of Americanintergovernmental relations, see H.Kenneth Bechtel, State Police in the UnitedStates: A Socio-Historical Analysis (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995); EdwardS.Corwin, The Passing of Dual Federalism, VLR 36 (Feb.1950): 1 24; andDaniel J.Elazar, The American Partnership: Intergovernmental Co-operation inthe Nineteenth-Century United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1962).48.J.A.Rickard, Famous Texans (Dallas: Banks Upshaw and Co., 1955), 171.49.Rufus R.Wilson, A Noble Company of Adventurers (New York: B.W.Dodge& Co., 1908), 111.50.Webb, Texas Rangers, 458.For similar views about McDonald, see DavidG.McComb, Texas: A Modern History (Austin: University of Texas Press,1989), 80 81; and Utley, Lone Star Justice, 257.51.For the mention of Abilene or one of its hard-boiled neighbors, seeThomas H.Rynning, Gun Notches: A Saga of Frontier Lawman Thomas H.Ryn-ning as Told to Al Cohn and Joe Chisholm (San Diego, CA: Frontier HeritagePress, 1971), 44.The story of the prizefight has been retold in numerousworks.See, for example, C.L.Douglas, The Gentlemen in the White Hats: Dra-matic Episodes in the History of the Texas Rangers (Dallas: South-West Press,1934), 155; Wayne Gard, Frontier Justice (Norman: University of OklahomaPress, 1949), 231; and Tyler Mason and Edward M.House, Riding for Texas:The True Adventures of Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers (New York:Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936), 101 11.For the mob violence at Columbus, seeWilliam E.Syers, Off the Beaten Trail (Waco: Texian Press, 1971), 202.Thisintrepid tale has been attributed to other Rangers in the twentieth century, as,for example, Joe B.Brooks for an incident at Galveston in 1921 and Richard{ }3 1 5 NOTE SR. Bob Crowder for involvement in a riot-torn East Texas boomtown inthe late 1930s.Dallas Times Herald, Nov.27, 1972 (Crowder), in M.T.Gon-zaullas Scrapbooks (Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum at Waco), Vol.5,p.403; Case Number 17 (Brooks), Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum atWaco.This display might have been taken down.One work attributed the one-Ranger-one-riot story to Eugene Cunningham, the western novelist.Harry S.Drago, The Legend Makers: Tales of the Old-Time Peace Officers and Des-peradoes of the Frontier (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975), 216.52.Paine, McDonald, 219 20.53.MPUS-1, p.65.See also the chapter on Brownsville.54.Leslie Scott, Terror Stalks the Border: A Western Duo (Waterville, ME: FiveStar, 2002), 79 211, with quotations on pp.93 (first) and 211 (second).55.Laura L
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