William MacLeod Raine,
A Texas Ranger — Foreword to Ye Gentle Reader
(1911)
“ Within the memory of those of us still on the sunny side of forty the more remote West has passed from rollicking boyhood to its responsible majority. The frontier has gone to join the good Indian. In place of the ranger who patrolled the border for "bad men" has come the forest ranger, type of the forward lapping tide of civilization. ”
