Defender Of The Texas Frontier

Author : David R. Gross
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532071904

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Defender of the Texas Frontier by David R. Gross Pdf

John Coffey Hays is just nineteen when he arrives in the town of Nacogdoches Republic of Texas in 1836. Moments later when a man is killed, none of the witnesses dispute that Jack acted in self-defense. Despite his young age, Jack is a man who commands perhaps just as much fear as respect. Although Jack is too late to enlist in the fight for Texas Independence, he soon joins the ranging company of Deaf Smith and begins a thirteen-year history of defending Texans from raids by Comanche bands and Mexican bandits. When he is just twenty-three, he is made a captain of the Texas Rangers. As he becomes known as a fearless fighter, Jack leads a group of men who will follow him anywhere and under any circumstances. While Jack’s Rangers scout, defend US supply and communication lines from attacks by Mexican guerrillas, and fight with army units in the Mexican-American War, the men earn a significant reputation for bravery and success. As Jack’s journey leads him to love and eventually marriage he leads his Rangers and transforms Texas history forever. In this fascinating historical novel, a young Texas Ranger leads his men in fierce battles against Comanche raiders, Mexican bandits, and the Texas Regiment in the Mexican-American War. For more information about the book, please visit www.docdavesvoice.com.

Author : David Gross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952062233

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Defender of the Texas Frontier by David Gross Pdf

Author : David R. Gross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645505839

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Defender of the Texas Frontier by David R. Gross Pdf

John Coffey Hays is just nineteen when he arrives in the town of Nacogdoches Republic of Texas in 1836. Moments later when a man is killed, none of the witnesses dispute that Jack acted in self-defense. Despite his young age, Jack is a man who commands perhaps just as much fear as respect. Although Jack is too late to enlist in the fight for Texas Independence, he soon joins the ranging company of Deaf Smith and begins a thirteen-year history of defending Texans from raids by Comanche bands and Mexican bandits. When he is just twenty-three, he is made a captain of the Texas Rangers. As he becomes known as a fearless fighter, Jack leads a group of men who will follow him anywhere and under any circumstances. While Jack's Rangers scout, defend US supply and communication lines from attacks by Mexican guerrillas, and fight with army units in the Mexican-American War, the men earn a significant reputation for bravery and success. As Jack's journey leads him to love and eventually marriage he leads his Rangers and transforms Texas history forever. In this fascinating historical novel, a young Texas Ranger leads his men in fierce battles against Comanche raiders, Mexican bandits, and the Texas Regiment in the Mexican-American War.

Author : Robert Maxxim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952062209

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Legacy by Robert Maxxim Pdf

Author : Rick Miller
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574414677

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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881 by Rick Miller Pdf

For the first time, author Rick Miller presents the story of the Frontier Battalion as seen through the eyes of its commander, John B. Jones, during his administration from 1874 to 1881, relating its history?both good and bad?chronologically, in depth, and in context. Highlighted are repeated budget and funding problems, developing standards of conduct, personalities and their interaction, mission focus and strategies against Indian war parties and outlaws, and coping with politics and bureaucracy. Miller covers all the major activities of the Battalion in the field that created and ultimately enhanced the legend of the Texas Rangers. Jones?s personal life is revealed, as well as his role in shaping the policies and activities of the Frontier Battalion.

Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574414653

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Tracking the Texas Rangers by Bruce A. Glasrud Pdf

Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Twentieth Century is an anthology of fifteen previously published articles and chapter excerpts covering key topics of the Texas Rangers during the twentieth century. The task of determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accomplished for the benefit of the state is a difficult challenge. The actions of the Rangers fit no easy description. There is a dark side to the story of the Rangers; during the Mexican Revolution, for example, some murdered with impunity. Others sought to restore order in the border communities as well as in the remainder of Texas. It is not lack of interest that complicates the unveiling of the mythical force. With the possible exception of the Alamo, probably more has been written about the Texas Rangers than any other aspect of Texas history. Tracking the Texas Rangers covers leaders such as Captains Bill McDonald, "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, and Barry Caver, accomplished Rangers like Joaquin Jackson and Arthur Hill, and the use of Rangers in the Mexican Revolution. Chapters discuss their role in the oil fields, in riots, and in capturing outlaws. Most important, the Rangers of the twentieth century experienced changes in investigative techniques, strategy, and intelligence gathering. Tracking looks at the use of Rangers in labor disputes, in race issues, and in the Tejano civil rights movement. The selections cover critical aspects of those experiences--organization, leadership, cultural implications, rural and urban life, and violence. In their introduction, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss, Jr., discuss various themes and controversies surrounding the twentieth-century Rangers and their treatment by historians over the years. They also have added annotations to the essays to explain where new research has shed additional light on an event to update or correct the original article text.

Author : Harold J. Weiss (Jr.)
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412604

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Yours to Command by Harold J. Weiss (Jr.) Pdf

Captain Bill McDonald's (1852-1918) admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who precipitated violence, hungered for publicity, and related tall tales that cast himself in the hero's role. This title seeks to find the true Bill McDonald and sort fact from myth.

Author : A. J Sowell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547733720

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Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas by A. J Sowell Pdf

"Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas" is a history book which describes Indian fights and the activities of many famous Texas Rangers on the frontier of Texas during the late 19th century, including information about Texas Ranger Bigfoot Wallace, Henri Castro, the founder of Castroville, and Mrs. Hannah Berry's description of her encounters with Davy Crockett and Josiah Wilbarger.

Author : H. H. McConnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086415536

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Five Years a Cavalryman : Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, Twenty Odd Years Ago by H. H. McConnell Pdf

Personal narrative of army life from approximately 1867-1871. Includes appendices: The cowboy's verdict, by R.G. Carter (pages 301-306) and Cattle-thieving in Texas, by WWW (pages 307-313).

Author : William Banta,J. W. Cadwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:2621520

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Twenty-seven Years on the Texas Frontier by William Banta,J. W. Cadwell Pdf

Author : J. Evetts Haley
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789120219

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Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier by J. Evetts Haley Pdf

This book, which was first published in 1952, first began as a history of San Angelo and the adjacent region drained by the Conchos rivers. It grew, in writing, into a history of West Texas. It embodies author J. Evetts Haley’s unequaled knowledge of the country from the Rio Grande to the Canadian, from San Antonio and Austin to the border of New Mexico. It could have been written only by a man familiar by personal acquaintance with the location of every water hole and spring, the exploration of every trail from Coronado’s to the Overland Mail, the great cattle drives of the seventies and eighties, the establishment of every military post, and the shifting Indian policies of the United States from the annexation of Texas to the final retirement of the Comanches to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Haley has an intimate knowledge of hundreds of salty characters who played their picturesque roles in transforming the land from nature to civilization. Haley possesses all this equipment—gained from intensive study, personal experience, and thoughtful reflection—for writing a vivid story. Five previous books and unnumbered articles on phases of the region contribute to the facility with which he tells this stirring tale and account of its comprehensiveness. It is no less than a history of West Texas in its heroic age.

Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870045028

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The Settlers' War by Gregory Michno Pdf

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas’s hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers’ War tells for the first time.

Author : Betty Dooley Awbrey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589797895

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Why Stop? by Betty Dooley Awbrey Pdf

This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of town, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. This Sixth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.

Author : David Paul Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UGA:32108023176574

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Frontier Defense in the Civil War by David Paul Smith Pdf

Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith demonstrates that through the efforts of the Home Guard and the Texas Rangers, the Texas frontier held its own during the eventful war years, in spite of a number of factors that could easily have overwhelmed it.

Author : William Banta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Comanche Indians
ISBN : MINN:31951001687774V

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Twenty-seven Years on the Texas Frontier by William Banta Pdf