Texas Ranger
Jack Hays in the Frontier Southwest
John Coffee Hays helped to forge the legend of what a Texas Ranger was. Arriving in Texas in 1836 but just missing the famous battles of the Texas Revolution, nineteen-year-old Hays soon had Sam Houston urging him to join a new group of Rangers. Once out on the frontier, Hays's careful planning and bold-indeed, sensational-forays against the Comanches soon earned him a colorful reputation and a host of nicknames. At twenty-three Hays was commissioned a captain, and between skirmishes and battles his survey party marked out much of the area around San Antonio. Hays was pivotal in the ultimate defeat of the Comanches and led the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-89096-572-6
- EAN: 9780890965726
- Produktnummer: 9516857
- Verlag: Texas A&M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 238 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 323 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 323
Über den Autor
Historian James Kimmins Greer lives in Waco, Texas, home of the Texas Ranger Museum.
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