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14 produkter
Six-Guns and Single-Jacks: A History of Silver City and Southwest New Mexico
Häftad, 2017
360 kr
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Old Riot, New Ranger
Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal
Inbunden, 2018
422 kr
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Award-winning author Bob Alexander presents a biography of 20th-century Ranger Captain Jack Dean, who holds the distinction of being one of only five men to serve in both the Officer's Corps of the Rangers and also as a President-appointed United States Marshal.Jack Dean's service in Texas Ranger …
Texas Rangers
Lives, Legend, and Legacy
Av Bob Alexander, Donaly E. Brice
Häftad, 2022
338 kr
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Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What …
Winchester Warriors
Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901
Häftad, 2011
280 kr
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The Texas Rangers were institutionally birthed in 1874 with the formation of the Frontier Battalion. They were tasked with interdicting Indian incursions into the frontier settlements and dealing with the lawlessness running rampant throughout Texas. In an effort to put a human face on the rangers, …
Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten
Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier
Inbunden, 2012
392 kr
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Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. When as a youth he heard of the killing by Rangers of the notorious outlaw Sam Bass at Round Rock, Aten's neighborhood, he altered his plans of being a cowboy and instead set his sights on becoming a Texas Ranger. At age twenty he enrolled …
Riding Lucifer's Line
Ranger Deaths Along the Texas-Mexico Border
Inbunden, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
352 kr
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The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is—or at least can be—risky business, hazardous to one’s health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: “As their predecessors for over one …
Bad Company and Burnt Powder
Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest
Inbunden, 2014
381 kr
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Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned ""Western"" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and …
Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands
The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones
Inbunden, 2015
409 kr
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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 …
Whiskey River Ranger
The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw
Inbunden, 2016
422 kr
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Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger,said of his company’s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854–1894),“A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close placeis worth two or three ordinary men.” Another old-time TexasRanger declared that Baz Outlaw “was one of the worst and …
Texas Rangers
Lives, Legend, and Legacy
Av Bob Alexander, Donaly E. Brice
Inbunden, 2017
409 kr
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Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What …
Tall Walls and High Fences
Officers and Offenders, the Texas Prison Story
Av Bob Alexander, Richard K. Alford
Inbunden, 2020
409 kr
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Tall Walls and High Fences is the first comprehensive history of Texas prisons, written by a former law enforcement officer and an officer of the Texas prisons. Bob Alexander and Richard K. Alford chronicle the significant events and transformation of the Texas prison system from its earliest times …
