Discover the life of the legendary Comanche following the arrows in the Lone Star State. Quanah Parker, war chief of the last band of...
Texas’s Quanah Parker Trail
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Mike Cox
Tracking the Texas Rangers
FOLLOW THE HISTORIC TRAILS OF THE LONE STAR LAWMAN THROUGH WEST TEXAS FROM SAN ANGELO TO EL PASO. “They are having a lively time in Tom Green...
A Killer Bullets Couldn’t Stop
While fighting for the citizens they swore to protect, two horseback-era Texas Rangers were cut down by a deadly killer. Maybe in the flag-waving...
Fighting for Honor
A Texas Rangers historian reflects on one-sided history and the danger it presents to our understanding of the past—and the present. The Texas...
Ranger Heroes
When it comes to recently published nonfiction on the Texas Rangers, the figurative cartridge belt rides pretty heavy on the waist. In other words,...
Texas Feud
The last major Texas feud has been explored in No Hope For Heaven, No Fear of Hell by James C. Kearney, Bill Stein and James Smallwood (University...
Ranger with Attitude
In his sixth Ranger-related book, Whiskey River Ranger: The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw (University of North Texas, $34.95) retired U.S. Treasury...
Building Your Western Library: Mike Cox
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...
The Great Texas Treasury Raid
When the bell atop Austin’s First Baptist Church began clanging that moonlit Sunday evening of June 11, 1865, the town’s civilian home guardsmen...
Life and Death of a Valiant Texas Ranger
“No man in the wrong,” legendary Texas Ranger Capt. W.D. (Bill) McDonald famously declared early in the 20th century, “can stand up against a man in...