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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Alexander, Bob, 1943- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2015.
Édition:Edition: First.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (512 pages).
ISBN:9781574416015

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