Riding Lucifer S Line

Author : Bob Alexander
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574414998

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Riding Lucifer's Line by Bob Alexander Pdf

The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is--or at least can be--risky business, hazardous to one's health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: "As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today's Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border." In Riding Lucifer's Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made the ultimate sacrifice as they scouted and enforced laws throughout borderland counties adjacent to the Rio Grande. The timeframe commences in 1874 with formation of the Frontier Battalion, which is when the Texas Rangers were actually institutionalized as a law enforcing entity, and concludes with the last known Texas Ranger death along the border in 1921. Alexander also discusses the transition of the Rangers in two introductory sections: "The Frontier Battalion Era, 1874-1901" and "The Ranger Force Era, 1901-1935," wherein he follows Texas Rangers moving from an epochal narrative of the Old West to more modern, technological times. Written absent a preprogrammed agenda, Riding Lucifer's Line is legitimate history. Adhering to facts, the author is not hesitant to challenge and shatter stale Texas Ranger mythology. Likewise, Alexander confronts head-on many of those critical Texas Ranger histories relying on innuendo and gossip and anecdotal accounts, at the expense of sustainable evidence--writings often plagued with a deficiency of rational thinking and common sense. Riding Lucifer's Line is illustrated with sixty remarkable old-time photographs. Relying heavily on archived Texas Ranger documents, the lively text is authenticated with more than one thousand comprehensive endnotes.

Author : Lansing Bartlett Bloom,Paul A. F. Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCSD:31822041111063

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New Mexico Historical Review by Lansing Bartlett Bloom,Paul A. F. Walter Pdf

Author : Bob Alexander,Donaly E. Brice
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574416916

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Texas Rangers by Bob Alexander,Donaly E. Brice Pdf

Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such as One Riot, One Ranger? Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy is the authors’ answer to these questions, a one-volume history of the Texas Rangers. The authors begin with the earliest Rangers in the pre-Republic years in 1823 and take the story up through the Republic, Mexican War, and Civil War. Then, with the advent of the Frontier Battalion, the authors focus in detail on each company A through F, relating what was happening within each company concurrently. Thereafter, Alexander and Brice tell the famous episodes of the Rangers that forged their legend, and bring the story up through the twentieth century to the present day in the final chapters.

Author : Doug Dukes
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418194

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Firearms of the Texas Rangers by Doug Dukes Pdf

From their founding in the 1820s up to the modern age, the Texas Rangers have shown the ability to adapt and survive. Part of that survival depended on their use of firearms. The evolving technology of these weapons often determined the effectiveness of these early day Rangers. John Coffee “Jack” Hays and Samuel Walker would leave their mark on the Rangers by incorporating new technology which allowed them to alter tactics when confronting their adversaries. The Frontier Battalion was created at about the same time as the Colt Peacemaker and the Winchester 73—these were the guns that “won the West.” Firearms of the Texas Rangers, with more than 180 photographs, tells the history of the Texas Rangers primarily through the use of their firearms. Author Doug Dukes narrates famous episodes in Ranger history, including Jack Hays and the Paterson, the Walker Colt, the McCulloch Colt Revolver (smuggled through the Union blockade during the Civil War), and the Frontier Battalion and their use of the Colt Peacemaker and Winchester and Sharps carbines. Readers will delight in learning of Frank Hamer’s marksmanship with his Colt Single Action Army and his Remington, along with Captain J.W. McCormick and his two .45 Colt pistols, complete with photos. Whether it was a Ranger in 1844 with his Paterson on patrol for Indians north of San Antonio, or a Ranger in 2016 with his LaRue 7.62 rifle working the Rio Grande looking for smugglers and terrorists, the technology may have changed, but the gritty job of the Rangers has not.

Author : Bob Alexander
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574415667

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Bad Company and Burnt Powder by Bob Alexander Pdf

Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered herein are the stories of Cal Aten, John Hittson, the Millican boys, Gid Taylor and Jim and Tom Murphy, Alf Rushing, Bob Meldrum and Noah Wilkerson, P. C. Baird, Gus Chenowth, Jim Dunaway, John Kinney, Elbert Hanks and Boyd White, and Eddie Aten. Within these pages the reader will meet a nineteen-year-old Texas Ranger figuratively dying to shoot his gun. He does get to shoot at people, but soon realizes what he thought was a bargain exacted a steep price. Another tale is of an old-school cowman who shut down illicit traffic in stolen livestock that had existed for years on the Llano Estacado. He was tough, salty, and had no quarter for cow-thieves or sympathy for any mealy-mouthed politicians. He cleaned house, maybe not too nicely, but unarguably successful he was. Then there is the tale of an accomplished and unbeaten fugitive, well known and identified for murder of a Texas peace officer. But the Texas Rangers couldn't find him. County sheriffs wouldn't hold him. Slipping away from bounty hunters, he hit Owlhoot Trail.

Author : Richard McCaslin
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418552

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Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright by Richard McCaslin Pdf

William L. Wright (1868-1942) was born to be a Texas Ranger, and hard work made him a great one. Wright tried working as a cowboy and farmer, but it did not suit him. Instead, he became a deputy sheriff and then a Ranger in 1899, battling a mob in the Laredo Smallpox Riot, policing both sides in the Reese-Townsend Feud, and winning a gunfight at Cotulla. His need for a better salary led him to leave the Rangers and become a sheriff. He stayed in that office longer than any of his predecessors in Wilson County, keeping the peace during the so-called Bandit Wars, investigating numerous violent crimes, and surviving being stabbed on the gallows by the man he was hanging. When demands for Ranger reform peaked, he was appointed as a captain and served for most of the next twenty years, retiring in 1939 after commanding dozens of Rangers. Wright emerged unscathed from the Canales investigation, enforced Prohibition in South Texas, and policed oil towns in West Texas, as well as tackling many other legal problems. When he retired, he was the only Ranger in service who had worked under seven governors. Wright has also been honored as an inductee into the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame at Waco.

Author : Larry Thompson
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644686232

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Fighting in God's Living Room by Larry Thompson Pdf

This book is the maiden book in the mini-book series entitled 'Highway to Christ' appertaining to the Kingdom of Almighty God, his Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Specifically, this book is about the Origin of All Warfare, both in heaven and on earth. Essentially, the narrative within this book details the diabolical, deceptive, deadly, corrosive, and corrupting influence by Lucifer upon holy angels morphing them into demons. Lucifer through deceit, lying and conspiratorial coup d'état caused angelic usurpation against their Divine Creator. The culmination of these reprehensible actions resulted in warfare throughout all realms of God's holy creation including in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, readers will be able to understand from a biblical perspective the unimaginable sinister motives and tragic, eternal consequences for angelic rebellion i.e. why, how, when, who, where, and reasons Satan instigated demonic rebellion inside God's Living Room. Also, this book will show or provide spiritual insight to all readers God's road map for quelling spiritual rebellion and mystical as well as terrestrial warfare throughout heavenly and earthly hemispheres once and for all from a biblical perspective. Summarily, it will display the divine providence of a Loving God's provisional 'open invitation' to all who will accept his love, mercy, and grace to live eternally in peace and harmony via salvation in his Only Begotten Son, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, inside God's Living Room.

Author : Rote Writer
Publisher : Rote Writer Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780973418439

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I've Had It by Rote Writer Pdf

In Lucifer’s mind, there are legions of demons bound to his will. His will is to unleash the hell humans have created with all their wrongs on earth so that everyone gets their due. His rue shall be done come kingdom come. His will is to right all wrongs including his own. To return to heaven and to make heaven a place on earth. After all he’s not just the Lord of Hell, he’s also been given dominion over earth. Heaven would have come down long before had not humans created such a hell on earth. Human population now reaching exponential growth, has in turn churned many more ready to be burned in hell. With so many, hell is now like an overflowing well of worms. There’s no more room. Not even for the likes of Lucifer. With no room to grow, many are now lost to live in limbo. Imagine a room, a train car; better yet a cave or cavernous vault, with so many people stuffed inside there’s no room to move. Just squirming like worms, like maggoty meat deep in hell’s heat. The stink and stench, the scratching and scraping, the screaming and scheming is sickening. And this is just limbo... hell is a hell of a lot worse, with the gnashing and biting; faces defaced, clawed raw with the misery, the maw. The worms, the germs, the bacteria and diarrhoea with no sleep or place to keep. The insanity, the lost vanity; the cruel rule of hell’s fuel for all to feel will reel those responsible for their actions. The popes, priests and pastors in the past responsible for burning witches at stakes now in turn burn in an internal, infernal and eternal hell. The bloody battles, inquisitions and spurious suspicions will now have jurisdiction forever over those responsible. A perpetual nightmare is what’s to come for those who have done wrong in the name of the Lord. Those who have killed, maimed in the name of the Lord, for money or for possession now find themselves killed, maimed in the same form or fashion or forever stressed with being obsessed with the emptiness of the need for greed. Those who have suffered others now suffer the same fate. There is no escape, no way to wash away the wrong. This is what awaits those with ill fates. Lucifer has no choice but to incarnate to what abates. There’s no such thing as a clean slate. Only fools think forgiveness leaves them free to go on another killing spree. Those who think the Lord suffered for them sickens Lucifer. Only the damnable would send someone else in their stead to suffer for them. The Lord as Lucifer knows Him now, would be the first one to damn any who would want Him to suffer such a fate for any. The Lord did not pay the price willingly. He sure as shit doesn’t want to spend an eternity so that a rapist, murderer or pedophile can get off scot-free if they just believe in the Lord. The Lord will not suffer anymore sins or for the sins of the world. Lucifer is on the Lord’s side. He’s seen what humans would have Him suffer. It’s beyond sickening. To think popes, priests and pastors who preach His suffering as something special shows how sadistic the species has become bent on something heaven sent. A religion based on belief is the bane to anything humane. Who in the world would have created such a scheme but those who have blood on their hands. Those who don’t want to burn in hell. Those well aware of what awaits. The end to all things are set forth in this novel understanding of the New Testament. The Book of Revelation will not pass according to scripture or rapture but by the laws of the universe. The gradual decline of order along with the culmination of all human behavior will usher in the Apocalypse.

Author : Craig Delancey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000649741

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Consciousness as Complex Event by Craig Delancey Pdf

Consciousness as Complex Event: Towards a New Physicalism provides a new approach to the study of consciousness. The author argues that what makes phenomenal experiences mysterious is that these experiences are extremely complex brain events. The text provides an accessible introduction to descriptive complexity (also known as Kolmogorov Complexity) and then applies this to show that the most influential arguments against physicalism about consciousness are unsound. The text also offers an accessible review of the current debates about consciousness and introduces a rigorous new conception of physicalism. It concludes with a positive program for the future study of phenomenal experience. It is readable and compact and will be of interest to philosophers and cognitive scientists, and of value to advanced students of philosophy. Key Features Provides a new approach to the study of consciousness, using information theory. Offers a valuable discussion of physicalism, of use in other disciplines. Contains an introduction to the main literature and arguments in the debate about consciousness. Includes an accessible overview of how to apply descriptive complexity to philosophical problems.

Author : Merlin Turtle
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984501332

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Random Truth by Merlin Turtle Pdf

The book includes five loosely related stories on the nature of reality, each one building on the last. It starts in a world dealing with climate change and ends with a battle in heaven between angels and demons. Along the way, space pirates search for the ark of covenant, an ancient pyramid is found in Australia, and God explains the meaning of life.

Author : Harry Harewood Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002089340G

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The Phantom Rider, Or, The Mystery of Graves Tower by Harry Harewood Leech Pdf

Author : Berislav Branko Dujlovich
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469103808

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Branko's Ride by Berislav Branko Dujlovich Pdf

Branko’s Ride is the true story of Berislav Branko Dujlovich, a Croatian Immigrant, and his staggering journey to America. The story begins with a six year old boy whose eyes are just beginning to open to the world around him on his family’s farm. His innocence is quickly extinguished when the war that was once so far away directly impacts him and his family. Ripped from their home, the family is forced into the darkness of night in an attempt to survive the horrors around them. But escape is not a pass from the atrocities of the time. Tumultuous travels, struggles to survive and countless months in refugee camps, life could not be more bleak. Taken in by Catholic Priests with the promise of an education and a chance at a better life Branko is separated from his family and brought to Italy where he is trained to become a man of the cloth. The Priests bring yet another round of atrocities and life lessons learned the hard way. Until, finally, the day of promise arrives. They will bring Branko, now a teenager, to the shores of America -- the land he thought he would never reach. But America holds hardships as well. Learning a new language and culture Branko struggles to become a meaningful part of his new country as well and one of its proud citizens.

Author : Luther Butler
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462833658

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Deluge by Luther Butler Pdf

DELUGE is a continuation of the two part Biblical series following DEATH RODE A WHITE HORSE. Noah, the descendent of Adam and Eve, has built the Ark. A user of alcoholic drinks, the sinful citizens of Ur fail to take his message seriously. The trickster, Lucifer, wants to make Creator angry enough to make him destroy his own people. Ham, third son of Noah, saves Jezebel from the flood. When the two have a son, Canaan, Noah puts a curse on the lad. Also saved from drowning are the descendents of ben-Able who are high in the Kargos Mountains with their animals. The current ben-Able risks the wrath of his people by forcing them to go higher up the mountain than the people and animals can safely go. Eventually ben-Able and his people join up with Hams family and head for Canaan to plant Creators people near the holy city of Jerusalem. DELUGE brings the Biblical characters into sometime hilarious situations when Lucifer and Creator and their followers pit their wits against each other. Lucifer not only destroys Creators people, but the flood reaches to Canaan and destroys Lucifers people. Lucifer is forced to save Ham in order to have people descending from Jezebel. While Lucifer takes the bodies of fish, fowl, and animals to save Ham and Jezebel, Creator and Gabriel soar above the flood in their chariot. This version of the Bible has a science fiction affect mixed with comedy, tragedy, and some very serious moments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Philology, Modern
ISBN : IOWA:31858028231961

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The Modern Language Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Tambling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230505612

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Blake's Night Thoughts by J. Tambling Pdf

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.