| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits |
| Series |
Frances B. Vick series ; no. 3 |
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Frances B. Vick series ; no. 3.
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Brooks, James Abijah, 1855-1944.
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| SUBJECT |
Brooks, James Abijah, 1855-1944 fast |
| Subject |
Texas Rangers -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
Texas Rangers fast |
| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435623132 |
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1435623134 |
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1433710072 |
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9781433710070 |
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9781574413908 |
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1574413902 |
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128120918X |
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9781281209184 |
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9786611209186 |
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6611209182 |
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