Riding Lucifer's Line : Ranger deaths along the Texas-Mexico border / by Bob Alexander ; with foreword by Byron A. Johnson.
The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is-or at least can be-risky business, hazardous to one's health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: "As their predecessors for o...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Riding Lucifer's Line : |b Ranger deaths along the Texas-Mexico border / |c by Bob Alexander ; with foreword by Byron A. Johnson. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The Frontier Battalion era, 1874/1901 -- Photo gallery, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum -- Sonny Smith, 1875 -- John E. McBride and Conrad E. Mortimer, 1877 -- Samuel "Sam" Frazier, 1878 -- George R. "Red" Bingham, 1880 -- Frank Sieker, 1885 -- Charles H.V. Fusselman, 1890 -- John F. Gravis, 1890 -- Robert E. Doaty, 1892 -- Frank Jones, 1893 -- Joseph McKidrict, 1894 -- Ernest St. Leon, 1898 -- The Ranger Force era, 1901/1935 -- Photo gallery, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum -- W. Emmett Robuck, 1902 -- Thomas Jefferson Goff, 1905 -- Quirl Bailey Carnes, 1910 -- Grover Scott Russell, 1913 -- Eugene B. Hulen, 1915 -- Robert Lee Burdett, 1915 -- William P. Stillwell, 1918 -- Joe Robert Shaw, 1918 -- Lenn T. Sadler, 1918 -- Delbert "Tim" Timberlake, 1918 -- T.E. Paul Perkins, 1918 -- William M. Alsobrook, 1919 -- Joseph B. Buchanan, 1921. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is-or at least can be-risky business, hazardous to one's health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: "As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today's Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border." In Riding Lucifer's Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made th. | ||
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