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Author Alexander, Bob, 1943- author.

Title Six-shooters and shifting sands : the Wild West life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones / Bob Alexander ; foreword by Chief Kirby W. Dendy, Texas Rangers.

Publication Info. Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2015.

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Edition Edition: First.
Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Number 15 in the Francis B. Vick series
Frances B. Vick series ; no. 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Dragged to the ground lanced and scalped" -- "Beneath the heel of an indignant legislature" -- "We fought under the black flag" -- "Several shots and run him into the river" -- "Sworn enemy to Rangers and sheriffs" -- "Sixty thousand dollars to spend" -- "Most bold, high-handed murder" -- "Damnable act of savagery" -- "He caught for a pistol" -- "A strong undercurrent of excitement" -- "By God, they will never come back" -- "Just plain legal assassination" -- "The shooting was promiscuous and lively" -- "We have been compelled to do some killing" -- "Boys, I am killed."
Summary 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.
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Subject Jones, Frank, 1856-1893.
Jones, Frank, 1856-1893.
Texas Rangers. Frontier Battalion. Company D -- Biography.
Texas Rangers. Frontier Battalion. Company D.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Texas.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Alexander, Bob. Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands : The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones. Denton : University of North Texas Press, ©2015 9781574415926
ISBN 9781574416015 (electronic book)
1574416014 (electronic book)
9781574415926 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1574415921