02425nam 2200589 a 450 991081684850332120230721031948.01-281-20918-X97866112091861-57441-390-21-4337-1007-21-4356-2313-4(CKB)1000000000482396(EBL)313213(OCoLC)191079290(SSID)ssj0000117652(PQKBManifestationID)11141942(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117652(PQKBWorkID)10049840(PQKB)11038451(MiAaPQ)EBC313213(MdBmJHUP)muse6906(Au-PeEL)EBL313213(CaPaEBR)ebr10331574(CaONFJC)MIL120918(EXLCZ)99100000000048239620061006d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaptain J.A. Brooks[electronic resource] Texas Ranger /Paul N. SpellmanDenton, Tex. University of North Texas Pressc20071 online resource (281 p.)Frances B. Vick series ;no. 3Description based upon print version of record.1-57441-227-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.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; indexTells 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.Frances B. Vick series ;no. 3.363.2092BSpellman Paul N1664409MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816848503321Captain J.A. Brooks4111957UNINA