Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands : The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones /
Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-leng...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press,
2015.
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Edición: | Edition: First. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length biography of this important nineteenth-century Texas Ranger. At an early age Frank Jones, a native Texan, would become a Frontier Battalion era Ranger. His enlistment with the Rangers coincided with their transition from Indian fighters to lawmen. While serving in the Frontier Battalion officers. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (512 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781574416015 |