John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman

by Chuck Parsons

Book Overview

"Texas, by God " cried notorious killer John Wesley Hardin when he saw a Colt .45 pointed at him on a train in Florida. At the other end of the pistol stood Texas Ranger John B. Armstrong. Hardin's arrest assured Armstrong a place in history, but his story is larger, fuller, and even more important-and until now it has never been told. As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons's biography is a long-delayed and much-justified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162349155X
• ISBN13: 9781623491550
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"