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<\/p>\n While working on his senior honors thesis in history at TCU, McCue discovered the TCU library\u2019s extensive Harold Maples Collection and began delving into the cartoons and the history and issues they represented.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n From more than seven thousand illustrations, McCue selected about 150 cartoons grouped into six broad categories\u2013Cold War, Fort Worth, Politics, Sports, Vietnam, and Uncle Sam. Each cartoon gets its own page in the book, with a few lines by McCue providing context. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maples, who grew up in Fluvanna in West Texas, was the Star-Telegram<\/em>\u2019s morning edition cartoonist for twenty-seven years, beginning in the 1950s. He died in 1981. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Texas Rangers: <\/strong>The University of Oklahoma Press has issued The Texas Rangers in Transition: From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921-1935<\/em> by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler ($34.95 hardcover, 656 pages).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The new title is a sequel to the two authors\u2019 earlier work, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Now they track the Rangers during oil boom days and Prohibition, with a rash of bank robberies, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, in-state political upheaval, and numerous other challenges.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTexas in the years 1921-35 was a violent place, figuratively awash in booze and oil,\u201d the authors write. \u201cThese years constitute a significant but relatively neglected period in the history of the Texas State Ranger Force. During this period the Rangers underwent the transition\u2013often painful\u2013from hard-ridin\u2019 straight-shootin\u2019 gunfighters to criminal investigators, mirroring Texas\u2019s transition from an essentially rural to a rapidly urbanizing state.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the themes in the book, the authors say, is racism. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cVirtually all the white men we deal with in the following pages were racists,\u201d they note in the introduction, \u201csome less than others.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Frank Hamer figures prominently into the story, as does \u201cLone Wolf\u201d Gonzaullas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you\u2019re into Texas Rangers history, this one offers plenty of action and insight.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book of editorial cartoons brings back fond memories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1015,813,830,1014,849],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cartoons","tag-lone-star-literary-life","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-texasrangers","tag-texasreads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/05a%20the%20star%20of%20the%20telegram.jpg\")
I still cherish a cartoon Harold presented to me when I left the Star-Telegram <\/em>to become editor of the Bryan-College Station Eagle<\/em>. He had A&M\u2019s Ol\u2019 Sarge welcoming me with open arms back to Aggieland.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/05b%20texas%20rangers%20in%20transition001.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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