Stephen Hunter with a nice piece on the life and legend of not only Bonnie and Clyde, but also a great ending regarding legendary Texas Ranger, Frank Hamerhttp://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/clyde-and-bonnie-died-for-nihilism-15205. I've read a number of like pieces and I think this one by Hunter really assesses the myth and fact about these characters very well. I particularly like his viewpoint regarding Hamer, who was one helluva man and another in a line of hell bent for leather Rangers.
My favorite Ranger, though remains Captain Leander McNelly, who McMurtry allegedly used as a model for Woodrow Call in "Lonesome Dove." Read about him sometime--"Taming the Nueces Strip" is a fantastic book and you'll get a sense of what life was really like in post-Civil War Texas. As Gus McRae would have no doubt said, McNelly was one "hard man to stop."
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