Captain J.A. Brooks : Texas Ranger

Captain J.A. Brooks : Texas Ranger / Paul N. Spellman.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spellman, Paul N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2007.
Series:Frances B. Vick series ; no. 3.
Subjects:
Brooks, James Abijah, > 1855-1944.
Brooks, James Abijah, > 1855-1944
Texas Rangers > Biography.
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Table of 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.

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