Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story in Frontier Reform (First Edition)

Edité par New York: J.J. Little & Ives Co, 1909

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New York: J.J. Little & Ives Co., 1909. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER'S ISSUE. Original cloth. 448 pages. Illustrated. Good. Hinges cracked else tight binding; pages clean; covers somewhat soiled. Important biography of Captain William Jesse McDonald, who turned from business to working as a peace officer to in the 1880's, serving as a deputy sheriff, special ranger and U.S. deputy marshal before being chosen to serve as a Captain in the Texas Rangers. According to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, McDonald took part in many of the most celebrated cases of the time, including Fitzsimmons-Maher prize fight, the Wichita Falls bank robbery, the Reese-Townsend feud, and the Brownsville Raid of 1906. He is considered one of the big four Captains of the period. Later he served as bodyguard to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Basic Texas Books 158: "This is the life of the most famous Texas Ranger of the time, the man who it was said would 'charge hell with a bucket of water.' It is also the origin of the most famous of all Texas Ranger stories, one that had been falsely attributed to almost every other Texas Ranger captain, living and dead; when McDonald arrived on a train to quell a riot, he was asked why he had come alone; he replied, well, there was only one mob, wasn't there?" .…

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Titre
Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story in Frontier Reform (First Edition)
Auteur
Paine, Albert Bigelow; McDonald, Captain Bill [William Jesse]; Roosevelt, Theodore (Introduction by); [Texas];
Éditeur
New York: J.J. Little & Ives Co
Année de publication
1909
État de l'article
Good
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No Jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
First Edition.
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