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  • Old Riot, New Ranger

    Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal

    de Bob Alexander ...
    Award-winning author Bob Alexander presents a biography of 20th-century Ranger Captain Jack Dean, who holds the distinction of being one of only five men to serve in both the Officer’s Corps of the Rangers and also as a President-appointed United States Marshal. Jack Dean’s service in Texas Ranger history occurred at a time when the institution was undergoing a philosophical revamping and ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Whiskey River Ranger

    The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw

    de Bob Alexander ...
    Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company-s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894), "A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men." Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw "was one of the worst and most dangerous" because "he never knew what fear was." But not all thought so highly of him. In ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Rawhide Ranger

    Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier

    de Bob Alexander ...
    Series series Frances B. Vick Series
    Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unitand Atenwould have a lively time making their mark in nineteenth-century Texas. The preponderance of Texas Ranger treatments center on the outfit as an institution or spotlight the narratives of specific ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Riding Lucifer's Line

    Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border

    de Bob Alexander ...
    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 ones 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, todays Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands

    The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones

    de Bob Alexander ...
    Series Libro 15 - Frances B. Vick Series
    Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length biography of this important nineteenth-century Texas Ranger. At an early age Frank Jones, a ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Winchester Warriors

    Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901

    de Bob Alexander ...
    Series series Frances B. Vick Series
    The Texas Rangers were institutionally birthed in 1874 with the formation of the Frontier Battalion. They were tasked with interdicting Indian incursions into the frontier settlements and dealing with the lawlessness running rampant throughout Texas. In an effort to put a human face on the Rangers, Bob Alexander tells the story of one of the six companies of the Frontier Battalion, Company D. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Bad Company and Burnt Powder

    Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest

    de Bob Alexander ...
    Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered herein are the stories of Cal Aten, John Hittson, the Millican boys, Gid Taylor and Jim and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Texas Rangers

    Lives, Legend, Legacy

    de Bob Alexander, Donaly Brice ...
    Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Tall Walls and High Fences

    Officers and Offenders, the Texas Prison Story

    de Bob Alexander, Richard K. Alford ...
    Texas has one of the world’s largest prison systems, in operation for more than 170 years and currently employing more than 28,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of people have been involved in the prison business in Texas: inmates, correctional officers, public officials, private industry representatives, and volunteers have all entered the secure facilities and experienced a different world. ... Leer más

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  • More Alternative Truths

    de Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Adam-Troy Castro, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Bobby Lee Featherston, Brad Cozzens, Bruno Lombardi, Colin Patrick Ennan, David Brin, David Gerrold, Debora Godfrey, Edd Vick, Msnny Frishberg, Edward Ahern, Susan Murrie Macdonald, Eric M. Witchey, Esther Friesner, Vonda N. McIntyre, Irene Radford, Jane Yolen, Jill Zeller, Jim Wright, John A. Pitts, K.G. Anderson, Karen L. Frank, Kerri-Leigh Grady, Kurt Newton, Lou Antonelli, Lou J Berger, Melinda LaFevers, MIchael Haynes, Mike Morgan, Philip Brian Hall, Rebecca Mix, Rivka Jacobs, Stephanie L Weippert, V. E. Mitchell, Stuart Hardy, Tais Teng, Wondra Vanian, C. A. Chesse ...
    More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the future? Will it devolve into a Russian style oligarchy, or will we rise to the challenge and use our hearts, our ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    X MINUS ONE: SEASON THREE

    de Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Ernest Kinoy, George Lefferts, Philip K. Kick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, J.T. McIntosh, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, William Tenn, Thomas Godwin, James Blish, Robert Block, L. Sprague de Camp ...
    Narrado por Alexander Scourby, Alistair Duncan, Arnold Moss, Arthur Anderson, Bob Hastings, Court Benson, Donald Buka, Edgar Stehli, Frank Maxwell, Frank Milano, John Gibson, Luis Van Rooten, Norman Rose, Roger DeKoven, Santos Ortega, Star Bright, Ted Osborne and William Keene ...

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    The best Science Fiction stories to come from such authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. Originally a spinoff from the NBC radio show DIMENSION X, X MINUS ONE continued the tradition of outstanding writing, acting, and direction for three seasons from 1955 to 1958 on NBC radio. X MINUS ONE, VOLUME ONE contains all 39 half-hour episodes from the original radio broadcasts of the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Wars of Alexander's Successors, 323–281 BC

    de Bob Bennett, Mike Roberts ...
    Series Libro 1 - Commanders and Campaigns
    This history of Ancient Greek warfare vividly chronicles the struggle for control of the Macedonian Empire, a fateful time of change in the Ancient World.As the story goes, Alexander the Great decreed from his deathbed that his vast Macedonian Empire should go "to the strongest". What followed was an epic struggle between generals and governors for control of the territories. Most of these ... Leer más

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