| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Frances B. Vick series ; no. 3
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Frances B. Vick series ; no. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index. |
| Summary |
Tells the story of James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944), one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Brooks embodied the raucous era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American West. |
| Contents |
1. Old Kentucky Home; 2. A Texas Ranger; 3. The Shoot-Outs; 4. The Garza War; 5. Prizefight in El Paso; 6. Deadly Streets of Cotulla; 7. Trouble in Colorado County; 8. The Ranger Force; 9. The Baker/De La Cerda Incident; 10. Batson Prairie Oil; 11. Keeping the Peace in the Valley; 12. Texas Legislator and County Judge; 13. Falfurrias, Brooks County. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Brooks, James Abijah, 1855-1944.
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Brooks, James Abijah, 1855-1944. |
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Texas Rangers -- Biography.
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Texas Rangers. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Brooks, James Abijah, 1855-1944. |
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Texas Rangers -- Biography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spellman, Paul N. Captain J.A. Brooks. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2007 9781574412277 1574412272 (DLC) 2006032376 (OCoLC)72353619 |
| ISBN |
9781435623132 (electronic book) |
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1435623134 (electronic book) |
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1433710072 |
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9781433710070 |
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9781574413908 |
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1574413902 |
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128120918X |
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9781281209184 |
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9781574412277 (alkaline paper) |
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1574412272 (alkaline paper) |
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