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Captain J.A. Brooks : Texas Ranger / Paul N. Spellman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spellman, Paul N.
- Series:
- Frances B. Vick series ; no. 3.
- Frances B. Vick series ; no. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas Rangers--Biography.
- Texas Rangers.
- Brooks, James Abijah, 1855-1944.
- Brooks, James Abijah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tells the story of James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944), one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Brooks embodied the raucous era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American West.
- Contents:
- half title; title page; contents; list of illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. Old Kentucky Home; 2. A Texas Ranger; 3. The Shoot-Outs; 4. The Garza War; 5. Prizefight in El Paso; 6. Deadly Streets of Cotulla; 7. Trouble in Colorado County; 8. The Ranger Force; 9. The Baker/De La Cerda Incident; 10. Batson Prairie Oil; 11. Keeping the Peace in the Valley; 12. Texas Legislator and County Judge; 13. Falfurrias, Brooks County; endnotes; bibliography; index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-20918-X
- 9786611209186
- 1-57441-390-2
- 1-4337-1007-2
- 1-4356-2313-4
- OCLC:
- 191079290
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