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Texas Rangers At 200: What To Visit, Read, And Watch
Kick off 2023 with a nod to the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers. After a start-to-finish rewatch of Lonesome Dove, there’s a lot more to dive into. VISIT Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, Waco, Texas: Artifacts and historical documents relating to Rangers past and present are displayed, from Lipan Apache arrows and 19th-century surveying tools to Lone Ranger lunchboxes and antique and contemporary firearms.
BOOK BEAT: Fort Worth stories
Fort Worth Stories By Richard F. Selcer University of North Texas Press $24.95, hardcover This is a collection of 32 bite-sized chapters of Fort Worth’s history. Chapters include “The Comanche Raid that Never Happened,” “Longhair Jim Courtright — Legendary Marshal, Terrible Witness,” ”Hogs Rule in Cowtown,” “Fort Worth Learns to Bathe” and 22 more.
Death on the Line
Even an everyday call to investigate cow stealing could spark violence that catapulted a Texas Ranger into the halls of death. This first look at Bob Alexander’s latest tome brings you the story of a brave man caught in the crossfire of King Ranch borderland politics—William Emmett Robuck, the first Ranger Force enlistee to be murdered at the Rio Grande’s edge. William Emmett Robuck’s genealogical family tree was fashioned from sturdy oak.
The Best of the Texas Rangers in Photos
I love this image of James B. “Jim” Hawkins, a charter member of Company D of the Texas Rangers, because he definitely looks like he’s loaded for bear. — Courtesy Chuck Parsons — There are many, many iconic images of the Texas Rangers, but here are my 12 favorites and why. By: Bob Alexander This photo of Company D Texas Rangers is one of a series of five photographs that play out a story for a photographer.
Wild West Book Review: Lynch Ropes & Long Shots
Lynch Ropes & Long Shots: The Story of an Old West Train Robbery by Bob Alexander, High-Lonesome Books, Silver City, N.M., 2006, $25. Readers are always in for a gritty treat when former lawman Bob Alexander tackles a frontier subject, because the prolific author does his research and tells his stories well. And this particular story is one for the books…and for the movies.
Dean Man Running
Inside History 8 mins ago by Bob Alexander 0 0 0 0 Dixon, Wyoming. The site where Noah Wilkerson met his Maker, mortician and Meldrum—all in the same day! — Courtesy Museum of Northwest Colorado — Ruben Flanoah “Noah” Wilkerson stepped out of Joe Erimmer’s buckboard, and after thanking him for the ride from Parachute, Colorado, mentally surveyed the settlement of Dixon, Wyoming.
The Best of the Texas Rangers in Photos
Features, Inside History 2 weeks ago by Bob Alexander 0 0 0 0 I love this image of James B. “Jim” Hawkins, a charter member of Company D of the Texas Rangers, because he definitely looks like he’s loaded for bear. — Courtesy Chuck Parsons — There are many, many iconic images of the Texas Rangers, but here are my 12 favorites and why. By: Bob Alexander This photo of Company D Texas Rangers is one of a series of five photographs that play out a story for a photographer.
Wild West Book Review: Winchester Warriors | HistoryNet
General histories of the Texas Rangers are legion, but in No. 6 of the University of North Texas Press’ Frances B. Vick series, Winchester Warriors, former lawman Bob Alexander narrows his sights on a representative “little picture” that nevertheless takes a Texas-sized 402 pages to recount. In this case, the slice of Ranger life is the first quarter-century of Company D.
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