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Mike Cox knows as much about the Texas Rangers as anybody on the planet. And in this, his second book on the Rangers, he spins more great tales of these larger-than-life heroes and their sometimes almost unvelievable adventures. These are all new stories, some only told among the Rangers themselves, some told quietly over remote compfires, and others only whispered over elegant dinner tables. Now here they are: more entertaining, informative, and always exciting tales of the grea Texas Rangers.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cox, Mike. Texas ranger tales II / by Mike Cox. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55622-640-3 (pbk.) 1. Texas RangersHistory Anecdotes. 2. Texas Rangers Biography Anecdotes. 3. Frontier and pioneer lifeTexas Anecdotes. 4. TexasHistory18461950 Anecdotes. 5. TexasHistory1951 Anecdotes. I. Title. F391.C783 1999 976.4dc21 99-27602 CIP
1999, Mike Cox All Rights Reserved
Republic of Texas Press is an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Wordware Publishing, Inc.
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Contents
Foreword
Elmer Kelton
v
Introduction
vii
Isaac Burton and His Horse Marines
1
It Would Never Do to Run
13
His Friends Called Him Foot
24
"Rip" (Rest in Peace) Ford
39
What Goes Around, Comes Around
52
Hard and Bloody Work
58
The Cry of the Death Bird
68
The Mutiny of Company H
74
I Took a Notion I Wanted to Be a Ranger
85
"Cap" Arrington
97
Being Robbed: A Vested Right
110
Thalis Cook and the "Steer" Branded MURDER
121
The Other Half of the "Four Great Captains"
134
Whispering Tom and the Plan of San Diego
148
A Killer Bullets Couldn't Stop
162
Cowboy Tom Hickman
175
The Sherman Riot
193
The "Eyes of Texas" on the Balinese Room
206
Ranger Grub
220
Shootin' from the Lip: Great Ranger Quotes
230
The Texas Ranger Motel
239
Hollywood Rangers
249
Appendices
Texas Ranger Filmography
265
Texas Ranger Reunions
280
Index
281
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Foreword
by Elmer Kelton
As a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, Mike Cox is in a particularly advantageous position to seek out stories of the legendary Texas Rangers. In this second volume he tells more tales about the lawmen who have worked, struggled, and sometimes died to bring order to Texas, from the state's earliest times to the recent past. Where possible he has separated fact from fable, though often that is difficult to do with subjects who so often in their own time appeared much larger than life.
In this book we meet men like John Salmon "Rip" Ford, farmer, surveyor, physician, newspaperman, and civil servant as well as Ranger and Civil War commander of Texas Confederate troops. Ford served without complaint wherever duty called him, whether behind a desk in some stuffy government office or in the saddle on long and dangerous treks far out on the Indian frontier. He led troops to victory in the final battle of the Civil War. Unknown to him and those who rode with him on the Gulf Coast, the war had already been declared over.
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