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Book Synopsis Rip Ford's Texas by : John Salmon Ford
Download or read book Rip Ford's Texas written by John Salmon Ford and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original source history detailing the years of Texas’s independence and annexation from a nineteenth-century Texas Ranger and politician. The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon “Rip” Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected representative, and above all, soldier and Indian fighter, Ford sat down in his old age to record the events of the turbulent years through which he had lived. Stephen Oates has edited Ford’s memoirs to produce a clear and vigorous personal history of Texas.
Book Synopsis Rip Ford’s Texas by : John Salmon Ford
Download or read book Rip Ford’s Texas written by John Salmon Ford and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected representative, and above all, soldier and Indian fighter, Ford sat down in his old age to record the events of the turbulent years through which he had lived. Stephen Oates has edited Ford's memoirs to produce a clear and vigorous personal history of Texas.
Book Synopsis Rip Ford's Texas ... Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Stephen B. Oates. (With a Portrait.). by : John Salmon Ford
Download or read book Rip Ford's Texas ... Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Stephen B. Oates. (With a Portrait.). written by John Salmon Ford and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rebellious Ranger by : William J. Hughes
Download or read book Rebellious Ranger written by William J. Hughes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Texan pioneer, who during his lifetime, was a practicing physician, adjutant in the Texas Rangers, newspaper editor, explorer, surveyor, superintendent of the state Deaf and Dumb School, state senator, and held a variety of political and honorary positions.
Book Synopsis Fighting Stock by : Richard B. McCaslin
Download or read book Fighting Stock written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fighting Stock, Richard B. McCaslin illuminates numerous facets of Ford’s life typically overshadowed by emphasis on his identity as Ranger and soldier in nineteenth-century Texas. In this third volume of the Texas Biography Series, published by TCU Press and The Center for Texas Studies, McCaslin reveals Ford as a man spurred on by the legacy of his nation-building grandfathers and his own strong convictions and energy to become a force in shaping Texas as a Southern state before and after the Civil War. Ford’s battles as a Ranger, and as a leader of Texas’ military forces allied with the Confederacy, were only part of his legacy in Texas history. He was also a physician, lawyer, and the editor of several newspapers, and among his many roles in politics and civil service were multiple terms as a state legislator and the mayoralty of Austin and Brownsville. Later in life, he fought to preserve Texas history and wrote his own extensive memoirs. Known for his courage and toughness as a military commander, Ford was also a talented strategist, diplomat, and community leader. McCaslin’s in-depth historical detail paints a full picture of this famous Texan, a fighter not only on the battlefield, but on the civic and political fields as well.
Book Synopsis "Rip" Ford, Texan by : William John Hughes
Download or read book "Rip" Ford, Texan written by William John Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John S. "Rip" Ford written by Bill O'Neal and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rip Ford was a bold, fearless combat leader, an expert pistoleer, and a master tactician who led hard-hitting cavalry charges against foes with far greater numbers. Ford was a ferocious warrior against the enemies of his beloved Texas, and from his first arrival in the Lone Star Republic, he volunteered eagerly for militia companies. During the Mexican War, he battled his way through the jungles and mountains of Mexico as a regimented adjutant alongside fellow Texians. During the 1850s, Rip Ford was called upon to lead Rangers in defense of frontier Texas. Usually, he campaigned against raiders and stock thieves along the Rio Grande, but in 1858, he planned and executed a dangerous attack north into Comancheria against horseback war parties. Ford defended the Rio Grande and its valuable cotton trade during the Civil War. He formed a rugged regiment known as the Cavalry of the West, and he led his men to a Confederate victory in the final battle of the Civil War - one month after Lee's surrender. But Old Rip did not confine himself to soldiering. He was a man of many parts, a Renaissance man of early Texas. He came to Texas from Tennessee as a young physician. He read for the law in San Augustine and learned the surveyor's trade. He became a journalist, sharing his strong views as the owner-editor of several Texas newspapers. He was elected to the State of Texas's legislative bodies and the Lone Star Republic. He was mayor of Austin and of Brownsville. He served as the innovative superintendent of the Texas Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. Ford wrote a lengthy account of nineteenth-century Texas history, and he was a founding member of the Texas State Historical Association. But this giant of a Texian (a term he embraced) is increasingly overlooked in the twenty-first century. Hopefully, the readers of this book will become better acquainted with an adventurous, heroic Texian.
Download or read book Rip Ford written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unpublished Memoirs of Col. S. (Rip) Ford by : John Salmon Ford
Download or read book Unpublished Memoirs of Col. S. (Rip) Ford written by John Salmon Ford and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rip Ford: Frontier journalist by : Clarence Jean LaRoche
Download or read book Rip Ford: Frontier journalist written by Clarence Jean LaRoche and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Civil War Career of Colonel John Salmon "Rip" Ford by : Margery Wentworth Petrovich
Download or read book The Civil War Career of Colonel John Salmon "Rip" Ford written by Margery Wentworth Petrovich and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Salmon (Rip) Ford by : Ralph W. Widener
Download or read book John Salmon (Rip) Ford written by Ralph W. Widener and published by . This book was released on 1995* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Texas Devils by : Michael L. Collins
Download or read book Texas Devils written by Michael L. Collins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has been largely overlooked—until now. This engaging history pulls readers back to a chaotic time along the lower Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century. Texas Devils challenges the time-honored image of “good guys in white hats” to reveal the more complicated and sobering reality behind the Ranger Myth. Michael L. Collins demonstrates that, rather than bringing peace to the region, the Texas Rangers contributed to the violence and were often brutal in their injustices against Spanish-speaking inhabitants, who dubbed them los diablos Tejanos—the Texas devils. Collins goes beyond other, more laudatory Ranger histories to focus on the origins of the legend, casting Ranger immortals such as John Coffee “Jack” Hays, Ben McCulloch, and John S. “Rip” Ford in a new and not always flattering light. In revealing a barbaric code of conduct on the Rio Grande frontier, Collins shows that much of the Ranger Myth doesn’t hold up to close historical scrutiny. Texas Devils offers exciting true stories of the Rangers for anyone captivated by their legend, even as it provides a corrective to that legend.
Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Just One Riot written by Ben Procter and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Rangers - Emotions evoked by these words run the gamut, from undying admiration and respect, to fear and hatred. John Salmon "Rip" Ford, an early Texas Ranger captain who fought the Comanches to a standstill, described the Rangers in this manner: "They ride like Mexicans, trail like Indians, shoot like Tennesseans, and fight like the devil." Ben Procter, veteran Texas historian, takes up where the later Walter Prescott Webb, noted historian of the frontier, including the Texas Rangers, left off. The book chronicles episodes of the Texas Rangers in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Cult of Glory written by Doug J. Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers.” —The New York Times Book Review A twenty-first century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression, and corruption The Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years later, the Rangers are still going--one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson has written a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles their epic, daring escapades while showing how the white and propertied power structures of Texas used them as enforcers, protectors and officially sanctioned killers. Cult of Glory begins with the Rangers' emergence as conquerors of the wild and violent Texas frontier. They fought the fierce Comanches, chased outlaws, and served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. As Texas developed, the Rangers were called upon to catch rustlers, tame oil boomtowns, and patrol the perilous Texas-Mexico border. In the 1930s they began their transformation into a professionally trained police force. Countless movies, television shows, and pulp novels have celebrated the Rangers as Wild West supermen. In many cases, they deserve their plaudits. But often the truth has been obliterated. Swanson demonstrates how the Rangers and their supporters have operated a propaganda machine that turned agency disasters and misdeeds into fables of triumph, transformed murderous rampages--including the killing of scores of Mexican civilians--into valorous feats, and elevated scoundrels to sainthood. Cult of Glory sets the record straight. Beginning with the Texas Indian wars, Cult of Glory embraces the great, majestic arc of Lone Star history. It tells of border battles, range disputes, gunslingers, massacres, slavery, political intrigue, race riots, labor strife, and the dangerous lure of celebrity. And it reveals how legends of the American West--the real and the false--are truly made.
Book Synopsis Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright by : Richard McCaslin
Download or read book Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright written by Richard McCaslin and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William L. Wright (1868-1942) was born to be a Texas Ranger, and hard work made him a great one. Wright tried working as a cowboy and farmer, but it did not suit him. Instead, he became a deputy sheriff and then a Ranger in 1899, battling a mob in the Laredo Smallpox Riot, policing both sides in the Reese-Townsend Feud, and winning a gunfight at Cotulla. His need for a better salary led him to leave the Rangers and become a sheriff. He stayed in that office longer than any of his predecessors in Wilson County, keeping the peace during the so-called Bandit Wars, investigating numerous violent crimes, and surviving being stabbed on the gallows by the man he was hanging. When demands for Ranger reform peaked, he was appointed as a captain and served for most of the next twenty years, retiring in 1939 after commanding dozens of Rangers. Wright emerged unscathed from the Canales investigation, enforced Prohibition in South Texas, and policed oil towns in West Texas, as well as tackling many other legal problems. When he retired, he was the only Ranger in service who had worked under seven governors. Wright has also been honored as an inductee into the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame at Waco.
