Retired New Mexico State University professor Charles H. Harris, III, returned to the show to chat with Lynn Moorer about his latest book written with Louis R. Sadler, The Texas Rangers in Transition: From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators 1921-1935, which traces the development of this state investigative and law enforcement agency with broad police powers and possessing a special mystique in Texas. He described Texas during this period: violent and racist; experiencing a stupendous boom in oil production and phenomenal production of booze; where a self-defense claim got most gunslingers off; and where the Democratic Party reigned supreme with a string of governors that included Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson.
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