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Texas Ranger tales : stories that need telling / by Mike Cox.
- Title
- Texas Ranger tales : stories that need telling / by Mike Cox.
- Author
- Cox, Mike.
- Publication
- Plano, Tex. : Republic of Texas Press, c1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F391 .C78 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 322 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A collection of stories about Texas Rangers in which the author attempts to separate the myths surrounding these frontier lawmen from actual events.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Anecdotes
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Samuel Walker's last fight -- "Legs" Lewis loses a king-dom -- Ropin' the bear was the easy part -- "He said rangerin' was a easy life" -- "Pass the coyote, please!" -- Fight at the Haunted Lake -- Corporal Wilson's ride -- Killing of "Caige" Grimes -- Ranger, Texas -- O. Henry and Lee Hall -- Ranger Oden's diary -- Did a Ranger kill A.J. Royal? -- Zane Grey and the Texas Rangers -- Zane Grey and the Rangers II: Joe Sitters -- Iron Gray's last ride -- Readin' ranger -- "Days of our boyhood" -- Old Monk and other ranger mules -- Three hours in the Rangers -- Battle of Borger -- Rx for keeping the peace: Laxatives and a .45 -- Tom Mix: Famous Ranger who wasn't -- "I asked for B.M. Gault" -- "Pappy" Davenport invented phone raids -- Lone Wolf versus the Phantom Killer -- Story of the Silver Star -- Rangers make 'em die laughing.
- ISBN
- 1556225377 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^97006899^
- OCLC
- 36470178
- SCSB-12512948
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library