Reminiscences of a Ranger: Early Times in Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 01.01.2000 - 528 Seiten Gunfights and general lawlessness were common in the frontier cities of the American West. Tombstone and Dodge City are legendary. But neither saw violence approaching that of Los Angeles in the 1850s. In his Reminiscences of a Ranger, Horace Bell reports that "midnight raids and open day robbery and assassinations of defenseless or unsuspecting Americans were of almost daily occurrence" in southern California, a territory newly acquired from Mexico. To combat this lawlessness, in 1853 the citizens of Los Angeles formed a volunteer mounted police force known as the Los Angeles Rangers. Under the command of Captain Alexander Hope, the Rangers strove to keep the peace within the city, and they hunted down bandits and murderers in the surrounding region, including several connected with Joaquin Murrieta's band. The life of a mounted ranger appealed to Horace Bell, a civilian who later became an attorney and ran a newspaper. As John Boessenecker says in the introduction to the book, Bell's memoir is a history of early Los Angeles, an essential and highly entertaining source for this period of the California Gold Rush. With a sharp eye for detail, Bell sketches numerous pioneers, politicians, military figures, and outlaws, and he vividly describes riots and shootouts in the city streets and campaigns against Indians and bandits. |
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Chapter 1 | 1 |
17 | 2 |
37 | 3 |
61 | 4 |
Chapter 5 | 79 |
Chapter 6 | 91 |
Chapter 7 | 99 |
Chapter 8 | 111 |
Chapter 21 | 255 |
Chapter 22 | 267 |
Chapter 23 | 273 |
Chapter 24 | 281 |
Chapter 25 | 293 |
Chapter 26 | 307 |
Chapter 27 | 315 |
Chapter 28 | 323 |
Chapter 9 | 121 |
Chapter 10 | 133 |
Chapter 11 | 147 |
Chapter 12 | 155 |
Chapter 13 | 163 |
Chapter 14 | 173 |
Chapter 15 | 195 |
Chapter 16 | 205 |
Chapter 17 | 213 |
Chapter 18 | 231 |
Chapter 19 | 239 |
Chapter 20 | 247 |
Chapter 29 | 335 |
Chapter 30 | 351 |
Chapter 31 | 367 |
Chapter 32 | 389 |
Chapter 33 | 401 |
Chapter 34 | 415 |
Chapter 35 | 429 |
Chapter 36 | 451 |
Chapter 37 | 471 |
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