Posted by Mike Cox, October 27th, 2009 No CommentsFiled under:Original Essays. My two-volume history,The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900 and Time of the Rangers: Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present, is about men (and now women) who tote guns, not baseball bats.For those not familiar with the non-baseball playing Texas Rangers, today they are an arm of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Lone Star State’s police force. But the Rangers are older than the DPS by