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9780890969649

A Private in the Texas Rangers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780890969649

  • ISBN10:

    0890969647

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Summary

What was it really like to be a Texas Ranger in 1887-88? Deconstructing myths, reconstructing realities, this gritty, day-to-day portrayal, written by Private A. T. Miller, Company B, Frontier Battalion, yields a complex vision of the passing West and its lawmen.

Author Biography

John Miller Morris is an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue 3(10)
``What Now Shal Be My Fate?'': Winter of 1887 (January 1, 1887, to March 22, 1887)
13(46)
Quanah Crime and Punishment: Spring of 1887 (March 23, 1887, to June 22, 1887)
59(58)
Distant Thunder: Summer of 1887 (June 23, 1887, to September 23, 1887)
117(35)
The Locomotive of Justice: Autumn of 1887 (September 24, 1887, to December 22, 1887)
152(33)
``Cold as Whis'': Winter of 1888 (December 23, 1887, to March 25, 1888)
185(32)
The Maroon Diary: Spring and Summer of 1888 (March 26, 1888 to July 23, 1888)
217(34)
Epilogue: The Boys of Company B 251(40)
Appendix A: Red Diary Addenda 291(2)
Appendix B: Black Diary Addenda 293(4)
Notes 297(16)
Bibliography 313(12)
Index 325

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