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Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger

by | May 24, 2011 | Western Books

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The Texas Rangers have more to offer than just Jack Hays. A ranger who continued his tradition in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries was John R. Hughes. Only now do we have a complete biography on him, wonderfully written by Chuck Parsons. Hughes joined the Frontier Battalion in 1887 and became the force’s greatest tracker, trailing fugitives like a bloodhound.


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