Six-shooters and Shifting Sands - The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones

Informationen zum Autor BOB ALEXANDER began a policing career in 1965 and retired as a special agent with the US Treasury Department. He is the author of Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten (winner of Wild West Historical Association Best Book Award); Bad Company and Burnt Powder; Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border; and Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901 , all published by UNT Press. Klappentext Many 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. Zusammenfassung Many 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Alexander, Bob/ Dendy Alexander
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2015
• EAN: 9781574415926
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-592-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Frances B. Vick; Frances B. Vick Series; Frances B. Vick; Frances B. Vick Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories