Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands : The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Bob, 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2015.
Edition:Edition: First.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jones, Frank, > 1856-1893.
Texas Rangers. > Frontier Battalion. > Company D.
Texas Rangers. > Frontier Battalion. > Company D > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Frontier and pioneer life > Texas.
Texas.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Dragged to the ground lanced and scalped"
  • "Beneath the heel of an indignant legislature"
  • "We fought under the black flag"
  • "Several shots and run him into the river"
  • "Sworn enemy to Rangers and sheriffs"
  • "Sixty thousand dollars to spend"
  • "Most bold, high-handed murder"
  • "Damnable act of savagery"
  • "He caught for a pistol"
  • "A strong undercurrent of excitement"
  • "By God, they will never come back"
  • "Just plain legal assassination"
  • "The shooting was promiscuous and lively"
  • "We have been compelled to do some killing"
  • "Boys, I am killed."

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