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Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands: The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (Frances B. Vick Series)
Bob Alexander
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Description for Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands: The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (Frances B. Vick Series)
Hardcover. Series: Frances B. Vick Series. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; JKVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 980.
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' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of ... Read more
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' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Condition
New
Series
Frances B. Vick Series
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Denton, United States
ISBN
9781574415926
SKU
V9781574415926
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About Bob Alexander
Bob Alexander began a policing career in 1965 and retired as a special agent with the US Treasury Department. He is the author of Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten (winner of Wild West Historical Association Best Book Award); Bad Company and Burnt Powder; Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border; and Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901, ... Read more
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