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William Hanson: From a “Position in the Shadows” to Enforcer of the Imperial-Gatekeeper State - John Weber. William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 256 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 9781477329221.

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John Weber. William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 256 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 9781477329221.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2025

Eladio B. Bobadilla*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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1 See John Weber, “The Politics of Mass Murder: William Hanson and the Rangers’ First Investigation into the Porvenir Massacre,” Refusing to Forget, accessed Sept. 8, 2024: https://refusingtoforget.org/the-politics-of-mass-murder-william-hanson/