Author: Ash Lingam
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986746410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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As the small Texas Ranger patrol returned from Tombstone, Arizona and New Mexico they ran across two dead cowboys out on the trail of the Great Plains to El Paso. They were murdered by bushwhackers with a badge. In an attempt to stop a deadly range war with the Scottish born Seth Bogardus, Texas Ranger Captain Ridge Creek brings his best Rangers from Laredo to face off with the infamous Marshal Dan Dowd, along with twenty hired gunslingers in beige dusters and Winchesters repeater rifles, guns for hire to the highest bidder. Mister Bogardus himself, a wealthy ranch baron and the man with the intention of taking every substantial water source from the New Mexican border to the city of El Paso by force with the bounty hunter, Tom Horn at his side. The danger in Texas has not diminished, making the need for such men as Captain Creek and his band of Texas Rangers imperative. It is said, in order to kill wicked men you need a bad man, and Creek is up to the task. Ash Lingam reaches new heights with his latest novel of the Wild West and the Texas Rangers. Bringing the 1860s to life in his Tales of Western Adventures in Cowboy Justice. (Sundog Series Vol. No. 8)
Author: Jim Gober
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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A look into a period in American history full of sweeping changes--an intensely personal account of the Old West as told by the memoirs of Jim Gober, a Texas lawman.
Author: James J. Griffin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595847358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is on the trail of the men responsible for the killing of a fellow Ranger and the disappearance of another. Jim's search will draw him into a web of deception, greed, and murder, where even a lawman's best friend may well be his deadly enemy. As Jim inserted the knife into a chink in the rocks, a bullet smacked into the wall just alongside his head, followed by the sharp crack of a rifle. Jim dove to his belly, pinned behind the inadequate cover of the ledge's slight lip as the hidden rifleman swept the rocks with an almost impossibly rapid fire. As the barrage of lead stopped for a brief instant, Jim chanced lifting his head ever so slightly, scanning the canyon in an attempt to locate the bushwhacker. "Got him spotted, on the rim over to the other side of the canyon," he said, as a glint of sunlight reflected off the gunman's rifle barrel for an instant. "Not that it'll do me much good," he muttered, ducking back as his assailant finished reloading and again swept the ledge with a rapid-fire volley. "My Winchester's still on my saddle, and he's way outta range for a six-gun, even tryin' a lucky shot. He can keep me pinned down here long as he wants. And sooner or later he's gonna nail me." As bullets whined over his precarious perch, Jim glanced downward, then, taking a desperate chance, threw himself over the edge of the shelf.
Author: Robert M. Utley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195127420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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"In the annals of law enforcement few groups or agencies have become as encrusted with legend as the Texas Rangers. The always-readable historian Robert Utley has done a thorough job of chipping away these encrustations and revealing the Ranger's rather rag-and-bone, catch-as-catch-can beginning in a time when the Texas frontier was very far from being stable or safe. A fine book."--Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey or Larry McMurtry. The Rangers began in the 1820s as loose groups of citizen soldiers, banding together to chase Indians and Mexicans on the raw Texas frontier. Utley shows how, under the leadership of men like Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch, these fiercely independent fighters were transformed into a well-trained, cohesive team. Armed with a revolutionary new weapon, Samuel Colt's repeating revolver, they became a deadly fighting force, whether battling Comanches on the plains or storming the city of Monterey in the Mexican-American War. As the Rangers evolved from part-time warriors to full-time lawmen by 1874, they learned to face new dangers, including homicidal feuds, labor strikes, and vigilantes turned mobs. They battled train robbers, cattle thieves and other outlaws--it was Rangers, for example, who captured John Wesley Hardin, the most feared gunman in the West. Based on exhaustive research in Texas archives, this is the most authoritative history of the Texas Rangers in over half a century. It will stand alongside other classics of Western history by Robert M. Utley--a vivid portrait of the Old West and of the legendary men who kept the law on the lawless frontier. "A rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same. By taking on the Texas Rangers, Utley, an accomplished and well-regarded historian of the American West, risks treading on ground that is both hallowed and thoroughly documented. He skirts those issues by turning in a balanced history.... An accessible survey of some interesting--and bloody--times."--Kirkus Reviews
Author: Margaret Daley
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 142671436X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Can love survive even when everything else is blown apart?
Author: Jerry Snodgrass
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669822729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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A tale of the Cowboys, Outlaws, Indians, Cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers, and the Texas Rangers on the Wild West Frontier. Wes Steel left his Texas ranch home and family in the summer of 1878 for the western frontier. He fights Indians, Mexican Bandits, and outlaws throughout Texas and Mexico. There is no man quicker with a revolver or more deadly with a Winchester rifle than Wes. He joins the Texas Rangers, and his adventures make Texas and American history. His family faces the dangers of the frontier at the hands of hostile Indians, Outlaws, and Bandits.
Author: David C. Gooch
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456720902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Caliber of Justice is a two book series, containing eight adventures of Texas Ranger Shane Dawson. These stories tell the story of a young boy who experiences circumstances in his life that force him to seek revenge. Thanks to the aid and mentoring of two Texas Rangers, Shane Dawson becomes a welcomed help to them in tracking down the most violent criminals of west Texas, thus earning him the opportunity to himself become a Texas Ranger. The two books introduce you to Shane, and his acuaintenances, as they ride on many adventures together that span the course of Shane's life as a lawman. The Caliber of Justice allows the reader to become famliar with the main character and then follows him through his career as a Texas Ranger as he tracks down outlaws, robbers, Indians and horse thieves. The books contain the following adventures: BOOK 1: Texas Ranger Bounty Hunter Grapevine Stage Smoking Gun Book 2: Wagon Train Inside Man Cattle Drive Santa Maria
Author: Margaret Daley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624904097
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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"When Texas Ranger Brody Calhoun is called to investigate an attack that has injured the brother of Brody's high school sweetheart, Rebecca Morgan, he thinks it's an open-and-shut case. But as Brody digs deeper, he realizes the attack may be related to an organized crime trial Rebecca will be overseeing."--Cover
Author: Donald Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781093656916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Need Help. In Presidio. Jake Clay Barlow, Texas Ranger, never turned his back on a friend, and he wasn't starting now. After receiving the cryptic message from Jake Coleman, his good friend, and fellow Texas Ranger, he immediately headed west. But the reason he now finds himself staked out in a dry river bed in West Texas was his thoughts of the girl he met in Austin. He had ignored his first rule. Always be alert. His mind, occupied with smiling lips, blonde hair, and blue eyes, failed to register the desperados until they had the drop on him. Now, the searing West Texas sun beats down on his exposed skin with the intensity of a blacksmith's furnace. Pain hammers every inch of his body, not only from the sun but from the hundreds of giant red ants that are devouring him one tiny bite at a time. What kind of trouble is Jake in? Is he still waiting in Presidio? Most importantly, will Clay survive the sun and the ants to help his friend?
Author: Elmer Kelton
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1429912758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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In 1999, with Forge's publication of The Buckskin Line, Elmer Kelton launched a series of novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. In Texas Justice, the first three of these critically acclaimed books are now brought together in a single volume. In The Buckskin Line, Kelton introduces the red-haired boy captured by a Comanche war party after the massacre of his family. Rescued by Mike Shannon, a member of a Texas "ranging company" protecting settlers from Indian raids, the boy known as Rusty is adopted by the Shannon family. In 1861, Mike Shannon is ambushed and killed, and Rusty follows in his footsteps and joins the Rangers. In the throes of the coming War Between the States, Rusty searches for the Confederates who lynched his adoptive father and awaits meeting the Comanche warrior who killed his family two decades past. At the end of the Civil War, Rusty Shannon is thrown adrift when the Rangers are disbanded, and makes his way to his home on the Red River, where he hopes to marry the girl he left behind, Geneva Monahan. But as Badger Boy, the second novel of the saga, unfolds, Geneva has married another man in Rusty's absence. Faced with this betrayal, he must contend with the hate-filled Confederate and Union soldiers infesting Texas and with the continuing Indian raids against innocent settlers. Rusty's own childhood captivity returns to haunt him when he rescues Andy, a white child called Badger Boy by his Comanche captors. In The Way of the Coyote, Andy rides with Rusty Shannon as the Rangers are re-formed in postwar turmoil. With Texas overrun with outlaws, disenfranchised Confederate veterans, nightriders, and marauding Comanche bands, Rusty tries to resume his pre-war life. When his friend Shanty, a freed slave, is burned out of his home by Ku Klux Klan and Rusty's own homestead is confiscated by a murderous band of thugs, he must follow perilous trails before he can put the war and its aftermath behind him. Texas Justice is not only a masterful re-creation of the early years of the Texas Rangers, it is vintage Elmer Kelton, the undisputed master of the Western story. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
