Download or read book The Sheriffs of Kendall County Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of the twenty-two men and one woman who served Kendall County, Texas as sheriffs from 1862 to the present.
Download or read book The Texas Sheriff written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Sheriff takes a fresh, colorful, and insightful look at Texas law enforcement during the decades before 1960. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural Texas was a strange, often violent, and complicated place. Nineteenth-century lifestyles persisted, blood relationships made a difference, and racial apartheid was still rigidly enforced. Citizens expected their county sheriff to uphold local customs as well as state laws. He had to help constituents with their personal problems, which often had little or nothing to do with law enforcement. The rural sheriff served as his county’s “Mr. Fixit,” its resident “good old boy,” and the lord of an intricate rural society. Basing his interpretations on primary sources and extensive interviews, Thad Sitton explores the dual nature of Texas sheriffs, demonstrating their far-reaching power both to do good and to abuse the law.
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Download or read book The Painful Warrior written by Gene Wright and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Valdez, the sheriff of Kendall County, Texas, is summoned to Washington, D.C., by his old Army friend, General Mark Timara. Timara's wife has been kidnapped, his home and Pentagon office bugged, his life threatened, and he turns to his old friend for help. Valdez has to deal with threats of terrorism, unscrupulous and incompetent military officers, fatally flawed helicopters, inquisitive congressmen, interfering federal agents, a dangerous renegade special ops soldier of fortune, and greedy corporate executives in his search for K.K. Timara.
Download or read book Criminal Justice Agencies in Region 6 written by United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stars Over Texas written by Ronnie Eugene Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Disastrous Texas Flash Floods of August 1 4 1978 written by United States. National Weather Service and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Absolute Justus written by Ron Martinelli and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired and revered Texas Ranger Wade Justus thinks that he has finally moved on from a respected career in active law enforcement. He has reengaged life by returning to ranching and working with his beloved bucking bulls in the Texas Hill Country. But his lingering guilt over the tragic events of an officer-involved shooting continues to haunt him in the middle of his nights. Wade's son Hunter, who is a Special Agent with Tennessee Bureau of Investigations inadvertently changes Wade's plans for a peaceful transition back into civilian life when a serial killer turns the city of Nashville upside down. When Wade comes to the aid of Hunter, the paradigm rapidly changes and Wade enters the fray in a quest for justice--Absolute Justus.
Download or read book Six Shooters and Shifting Sands written by Bob Alexander and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 native Texan, would become a Frontier Battalion era Ranger. His enlistment with the Rangers coincided with their transition from Indian fighters to lawmen. While serving in the Frontier Battalion officers' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of the four "great" captains of that era: J.A. Brooks, John H. Rogers, and John R. Hughes. Besides Austin Ira Aten and his younger brothers Calvin Grant Aten and Edwin Dunlap Aten, Captain Jones also managed law enforcement activities of numerous other noteworthy Rangers, such as Philip Cuney "P.C." Baird, Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, Bazzell Lamar "Baz" Outlaw, J. Walter Durbin, Jim King, Frank Schmid, and Charley Fusselman, to name just a few. Frank Jones' law enforcing life was anything but boring. Not only would he find himself dodging bullets and returning fire, but those Rangers under his supervision would also experience gunplay. Of all the Texas Ranger companies, Company D contributed the highest number of on-duty deaths within Texas Ranger ranks.
Download or read book Texas High Sheriffs written by Thad Sitton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Lawmen 1835 1899 written by Clifford R. Caldwell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tally of Texas lawmen killed during the states first sixty-five years of organized law enforcement is truly staggering. From Texas Rangers the likes of Silas Mercer Parker Jr., gunned down at Parkers Fort in 1836, to Denton County sheriff s deputy Floyd Coberly, murdered by an inmate in 1897 after ten days on the job, this collection accounts for all of those unsung heroes. Not merely an attempt to retell a dozen popular peace officer legends, Texas Lawmen, 18351899 represents thousands of hours of research conducted over more than a decade. Ron DeLord and Cliff Caldwell have carefully assembled a unique and engaging chronicle of Texas history.
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Download or read book Texas County Sheriffs written by Sammy Tise and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the memory of those county shefiffs who gave their lives in the line of duty to help preserve law and order in Texas.
Download or read book Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas 1865 1880 written by Randolph B. Campbell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violence in the Hill Country written by Nicholas Keefauver Roland and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.
Download or read book Brown County Texas Sheriffs written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Draft by Patti Mauldin.
