| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Frances B. Vick series ; no. 7 |
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Frances B. Vick series ; no. 7.
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| Contents |
A terror to all the bad men -- Hold up, Wesley! -- Challenging the Odles -- Another ranger killed -- Battling the Olguins -- Scouting on Pirate Island -- Spectators on the Rio Grande -- The hardest man to catch -- From Ysleta to Alice -- From East Texas to the Texas Panhandle -- A ranger in the Panhandle -- Capt. John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger -- Texas State Cemetery -- The great captains |
| Summary |
Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger is the first full and complete modern biography of a man who served as a Texas Ranger from 1887 until 1915. In his early years he lived in Indian Territory among the Choctaw, Osage and Comanche Indians, becoming friends with Quanah Parker. Once in Texas, he bought a farm and raised horses on a ranch in Travis County. When horse thieves made off with several horses from his farm and his neighbors, Hughes was determined to hunt them down. He doggedly trailed the thieves for nearly a year, killed several of them in New Mexico, and returned home with the horses, earning the admiration of his neighbors - and the Texas Rangers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hughes, John R. (John Reynolds), 1855-1947.
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| SUBJECT |
Hughes, John R. (John Reynolds), 1855-1947 fast |
| Subject |
Texas Rangers -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
Texas Rangers fast |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- History -- 1846-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134269
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| Subject |
Texas
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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History
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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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| LC no. |
2010042776 |
| ISBN |
9781574413540 |
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1574413546 |
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