Captain J.A. Brooks [[electronic resource] ] : Texas Ranger / / Paul N. Spellman
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| Autore: |
Spellman Paul N
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| Titolo: |
Captain J.A. Brooks [[electronic resource] ] : Texas Ranger / / Paul N. Spellman
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| Pubblicazione: | Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.2092 |
| B | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Captain J.A. Brooks |
| ISBN: | 1-281-20918-X |
| 9786611209186 | |
| 1-57441-390-2 | |
| 1-4337-1007-2 | |
| 1-4356-2313-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816848503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Frances B. Vick series ; ; no. 3.