TY - BOOK ID - 80832154 TI - Riding Lucifer's Line PY - 2013 SN - 9781574415131 1574415131 1299610730 9781299610736 9781574414998 1574414992 PB - Denton, Tex. University of North Texas Press DB - UniCat KW - Law enforcement KW - Peace officers KW - Enforcement of law KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - History KW - Mortality KW - Texas Rangers KW - Texan Rangers KW - Texas. KW - Confederate States of America. KW - Mexican-American Border Region KW - Texas KW - American-Mexican Border Region KW - Border Region, American-Mexican KW - Border Region, Mexican-American KW - Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) KW - Mexico-United States Border Region KW - Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos KW - United States-Mexico Border Region KW - Officers, Peace KW - Public officers KW - Policing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80832154 AB - The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is-or at least can be-risky business, hazardous to one's health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: "As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today's Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border." In Riding Lucifer's Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made th ER -