Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881 /
In 1874, the Texas legislature created the Frontier Battalion, the first formal, budgeted organization as an arm of state government of what historically had been periodic groups loosely referred to as Texas Rangers. Initially created to combat the menace of repeated raids of Indians from the north...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Denton, TX :
University of North Texas Press,
2012.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Frances B. Vick series ;
no. 9. |
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |