Yours to Command - The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill Mcdonald

Informationen zum Autor HAROLD J. WEISS JR. is Emeritus Professor of History, Government, and Criminal Justice at Jamestown Community College. He received his doctorate in history from Indiana University at Bloomington. Weiss has published numerous articles and essays on the Texas Rangers and western law and order in the Journal of the West, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and South Texas Studies.He lives in Leander, Texas. Klappentext Captain Bill McDonald's (1852-1918) admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who precipitated violence, hungered for publicity, and related tall tales that cast himself in the hero's role. This title seeks to find the true Bill McDonald and sort fact from myth. Zusammenfassung Captain Bill McDonald's (1852-1918) admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who precipitated violence! hungered for publicity! and related tall tales that cast himself in the hero's role. This title seeks to find the true Bill McDonald and sort fact from myth.

Product details

• Authors: Jr. Harold J. Weiss, Harold J. Weiss Jr., Harold J. Weiss
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2009
• EAN: 9781574412604
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-260-4
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Frances B. Vick; Frances B. Vick; Frances B. Vick Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries