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A Private in the Texas Rangers: A.T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion (Canseco-Keck History): 3
Author(s): John Miller Morris (Contributor)
- Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date: 31 May 2001
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 0890969647
- ISBN-13: 9780890969649
Book Description
A ride along the fading Texas-Oklahoma frontier. Three diaries, written by A.T. Miller and excerpted and annotated by his grandson for this volume, provide a tale of true crime and punishment, set against the scenic backdrops of the Rolling Plains, the Panhandle, and Old Greer empires.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"The only extensive, first person, day-to-day account of the life of a Ranger private in 1887-1888, or any other period, for that matter. What emerges is a struggle to keep warm, find enough to eat, cross harshly county in any weather, fight boredom, yet be constantly alert. This is NOT the Ranger life of the Wild West novels. This is Ranger life as it was!"--Frederick Wilkins
About the Author
John Miller Morris is an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of the award-winning El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860, Morris lectures widely on topics in geography and history.
