John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman write by Chuck Parsons. This book was released on 2007. John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to Texas." Parsons fills in the missing details of a Ranger and rancher's life, correcting some common misconceptions and adding to the record of a legendary group of lawmen and pioneers.
John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman (Canseco-Keck History) (Canseco-Keck History Series)
John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman (Canseco-Keck History) (Canseco-Keck History Series) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman (Canseco-Keck History) (Canseco-Keck History Series) write by Parsons. This book was released on 2013-12-30. John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman (Canseco-Keck History) (Canseco-Keck History Series) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Texas, by God " cried notorious killer John Wesley Hardin when he saw a Colt .45 pointed at him on a train in Florida. At the other end of the pistol stood Texas Ranger John B. Armstrong. Hardin's arrest assured Armstrong a place in history, but his story is larger, fuller, and even more important--and until now it has never been told. Serving in the Rangers' famed Frontier Battalion from 1875 to 1878, Armstrong rode with Captain L. H. McNelly in the capture of King Fisher, was called to Round Rock when Sam Bass was cornered, and helped patrol the region caught in the Taylor-Sutton Feud. His more lasting legacy, though, was as founder of the Armstrong Ranch, an operation that remains active and important to this day. From this family base he helped change ranching techniques and was an important sponsor for bringing the railroads to South Texas. In the 1890s he joined a special Ranger division that supplemented the force's efforts, especially in pursuit and apprehension of gunmen and cattle rustlers in the region. As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to Texas." Parsons fills in the missing details of a Ranger and rancher's life, correcting some common misconceptions and adding to the record of a legendary group of lawmen and pioneers.
Pidge, Texas Ranger
Pidge, Texas Ranger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pidge, Texas Ranger write by Chuck Parsons. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Pidge, Texas Ranger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas C. (Pidge) Robinson came to Texas from Virginia at the age of 27, fleeing a feud with a neighbor who opposed Robinson’s amorous intentions toward the neighbor’s sister. He joined the Texas Rangers in 1874, serving with legendary Capt. Leander H. McNelly’s Washington County Volunteer Militia Company A. He earned the rank of first lieutenant in this Texas Ranger company. Two years later he returned to Virginia to avenge his honor and claim the woman he loved. A learned and witty writer who sent back letters, poems, and reports for publication in Austin newspapers, Pidge also wrote most of Captain McNelly’s reports. From the newspaper submissions, backed by extensive research to document details and explain allusions, western writer Chuck Parsons has fashioned an annotated compendium of primary materials that give insight into not only the life and actions of the famous Texas Rangers but also the popular culture of post–Civil War Texas. Robinson rode with McNelly as the Rangers subdued the clashes between the Suttons and the Taylors in DeWitt County. He served on the Rio Grande frontier in actions against Juan Cortina, including the famous battle on Palo Alto Prairie. He was with a party of Rangers who invaded Mexico to recover cattle stolen from Texas ranchers. Pidge’s lively, literate, and often humorous letters give first-person accounts of these and other actions that provide a unique picture of Ranger service in the field. This Texas A&M University Press edition, incorporating newly discovered materials, also features rare period photographs, illustrations, and other helpful maps and images.
East Texas Troubles
East Texas Troubles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East Texas Troubles write by Jody Edward Ginn. This book was released on 2019-07-18. East Texas Troubles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the gun smoke cleared, four men were found dead at the hardware store in a rural East Texas town. But this December 1934 shootout was no anomaly. San Augustine County had seen at least three others in the previous three years, and these murders in broad daylight were only the latest development in the decade-long rule of the criminal McClanahan-Burleson gang. Armed with handguns, Jim Crow regulations, and corrupt special Ranger commissions from infamous governors “Ma” and “Pa” Ferguson, the gang racketeered and bootlegged its way into power in San Augustine County, where it took up robbing and extorting local black sharecroppers as its main activity. After the hardware store shootings, white community leaders, formerly silenced by fear of the gang’s retribution, finally sought state intervention. In 1935, fresh-faced, newly elected governor James V. Allred made good on his promise to reform state law enforcement agencies by sending a team of qualified Texas Rangers to San Augustine County to investigate reports of organized crime. In East Texas Troubles, historian Jody Edward Ginn tells of their year-and-a-half-long cleanup of the county, the inaugural effort in Governor Allred’s transformation of the Texas Rangers into a professional law enforcement agency. Besides foreshadowing the wholesale reform of state law enforcement, the Allred Rangers’ investigative work in San Augustine marked a rare close collaboration between white law enforcement officers and black residents. Drawing on firsthand accounts and the sworn testimony of black and white residents in the resulting trials, Ginn examines the consequences of such cooperation in a region historically entrenched in racial segregation. In this story of a rural Texas community’s resurrection, Ginn reveals a multifaceted history of the reform of the Texas Rangers and of an unexpected alliance between the legendary frontier lawmen and black residents of the Jim Crow South.
John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger
John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger write by Judy Alter. This book was released on 2007. John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells how John Barclay Armstrong became a Texas Ranger famous for bringing in one of the most wanted criminals in the old West, John Wesley Hardin.
