Aldrich, Roy Wilkinson, papers, 1858-1955.

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Aldrich, Roy Wilkinson, papers, 1858-1955.

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The collection constists of manuscript material and photographs. Approximately three-quarters of the papers pertain to Aldrich's private life and reflect his interests outside law enforcement: his family, his numerous friends, his travels, regional history, his menagerie and gardens, his collections of Western artifacts, and his valuable library of rare books.

3ft., 9 in.

University of Texas Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7580022

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Aldrich, Roy Wilkinson

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Aldrich, Roy Wilkinson, 1869-1955

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At the time of his death in 1955, Roy Wilkinson Aldrich had served in the Texas Rangers longer than any other man, 32 years, from his enlistment in 1915 to retirement in 1947 at the age of 78. From the days of the horseback Ranger of the frontier to the modern era of automobile and airplane, Aldrich built his career upon the major law-enforcement issues of Texas in the early Twentieth Century: The violence along the Mexican border stemming from the Mexican Revolution, fr...