Third-generation journalist Mike Cox was born in Amarillo and raised in Austin. After 20 years of working for newspapers, he went to work for the Texas Department of Public Safety for 15 years and then the state highway department and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department before retiring in 2015. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Cox has written 28 nonfiction books and hundreds of articles, including his highly rated two-volume Ranger history, Wearing the Cinco Peso: The Texas Ranger
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