The storied Texas Rangers probably have more stories than just about any law- enforcement agency—and Mike Cox knows most of them, having spent 15 years as their spokesman. He’s put many of them in Texas Ranger Tales: Hard Riding Stories From the Lone Star State (Lone Star Books, $24.95). It’s a compilation of two previous Cox books with some new stuff added. Sure, some of these stories have been told before, but most aren’t that well-known—like the exploits of Ben Pennington, who becam

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows