Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest

by William J. Hughes and W.J. Hughes

Book Overview

"Few newcomes became so thoroughly Texas as did Rip Ford. His career reads like a dime novel. He was in fact the hero of several such fiction pieces. He was born in South Carolina with the ordinary name of John Salmon Ford. His father, originally a Virginian, drifted west to Lincoln County, Tennessee. The boy quickly went through the country school and at sixteen years of age taught himself for a time. At nineteen he 'read medicine' under Dr. James...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806110848
• ISBN13: 9780806110844
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"