Texas Ranger Tales
Hard-Riding Stories from the Lone Star State
Published on 1. September 2016
336 pages
978-1-4930-2600-5 (ISBN)
Description
They were men who could not be stampeded, said the late Colonel Homer Garrison Jr. of the men who wore the badge of the Texas Rangers. Colonist Stephen F. Austin, during the earliest days of Anglo settlement in Texas, wrote that he would employ 10 men to act as 'rangers' for the common defense... and thus, the famous Texas Rangers came into being. An important part of Texas history, these few good men were distinguished, unique even among themselves, and soon, even mythical. The myths and traditions surrounding the Rangers have endured and evolved. Today the Texas Rangers are among the most respected law enforcement agencies in the world. Texas Ranger Tales is a collection of legendary Texas Ranger stories, from new takes on the famous tales to fresh stories few, if any, have heard.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
18,02 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-2600-5 (9781493026005)
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Book
09/2016
Lone Star Books
€24.00
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Person
Mike Cox is a freelance writer, speaker, and author of numerous Texas- related books and magazine articles. Cox spent several years as Chief of Media Relations for the Texas Department of Public Relations and served as the department's principal spokesman during several national and international law enforcement crisis situations.
Content
- Intro
- Stories That Need Tellin': An Introduction
- Isaac Burton and His Horse Marines
- It Would Never Do To Run
- Samuel Walker's Last Fight
- His Friends Called Him Foot
- ''Legs" Lewis Loses a Kingdom
- ''Rip'' (Rest in Peace) Ford
- What Goes Around, Comes Around
- Hard and Bloody Work
- Ropin' the Bear Was the Easy Part
- The Mutiny of Company H
- ''He Said Rangerin' Was a Easy Life"
- "Pass the Coyote, Please!"
- The Cry of the Death Bird
- Fight at the Haunted Lake
- Corporal Wilson's Ride
- The Killing of "Caige" Grimes
- Ranger, Texas
- I Took a Notion I Wanted to Be a Ranger
- O. Henry and Lee Hall
- ''Cap'' Arrington
- Being Robbed: A Vested Right
- Ranger Oden's Diary
- Did a Ranger Kill A. J. Royal?
- Thalis Cook and the ''Steer'' Branded M-U-R-D-E-R
- The Other Half of the ''Four Great Captains''
- Zane Grey and the Texas Rangers
- Zane Grey and the Rangers II: Joe Sitters
- Whispering Tom and the Plan of San Diego
- A Killer Bullets Couldn't Stop
- Iron Gray's Last Ride
- The Readin' Ranger
- Old Monk and Other Ranger Mules
- Three Hours in the Rangers
- Cowboy Tom Hickman
- The Battle of Borger
- "The Days of Our Boyhood"
- The Sherman Riot
- "I Asked For B. M. Gault . . . "
- ''Pappy" Davenport Invented Phone Raids
- The ''Eyes of Texas'' on the Balinese Room
- Lone Wolf Versus the Phantom Killer
- Rx for Keeping the Peace: Laxatives and a .45
- The Texas Ranger Motel
- The Story of the Silver Star
- Ranger Grub
- Shootin' from the Lip: The Quotable Ranger
- Rangers Make 'Em Die Laughing
- Hollywood Rangers
- Tom Mix: Famous Ranger Who Wasn't
- Space Rangers Defend a New Frontier
- Texas Ranger Filmography
- Sources
- Index
- About the Author
