Six-shooters and shifting sands : the Wild West life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones /

Six-shooters and shifting sands : the Wild West life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Alexander, Bob, 1943- author.
Edition:Edition: First.
Imprint:Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2015.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Number 15 in the Francis B. Vick series
Frances B. Vick series ; no. 15.
Subject:
Jones, Frank, -- 1856-1893.
Jones, Frank, -- 1856-1893.
Texas Rangers. -- Frontier Battalion. -- Company D -- Biography.
Texas Rangers. -- Frontier Battalion. -- Company D.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Texas.
Biographies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11907256
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ISBN:9781574416015
1574416014
9781574415926
1574415921
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Alexander, Bob. Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands : The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones. Denton : University of North Texas Press, ©2015 9781574415926

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