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Edition: First. |
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1 online resource. |
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Number 15 in the Francis B. Vick series
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Frances B. Vick series ; no. 15.
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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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Jones, Frank, 1856-1893.
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Jones, Frank, 1856-1893. |
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Texas Rangers. Frontier Battalion. Company D -- Biography.
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Texas Rangers. Frontier Battalion. Company D. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Texas. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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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) |
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1574416014 (electronic book) |
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9781574415926 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1574415921 |
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