Binding: Paperback
Description: The explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier. Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks of Texas Ranger Company F was engaged in three fatal gunfights endured disfiguring bullet wounds engaged in countless manhunts was convicted of second - degree murder and rattled Washington D. C. with a request for a pardon from the US president. His story anchors the tale of Joe Pappalardo's Red Sky Morning an epic saga of lawmen and criminals set in Texas during the waning years of the Old West. Alongside Brooks were the Rangers of Company F who ranged from a pious teetotaler to a cowboy fleeing retribution for killing a man. They were all led by Captain William Scott who cut his teeth as a freelance undercover informant but was facing the end of his Ranger career. Company F hunted criminals across Texas and beyond killing them as needed and were confident they could bring anyone to Ranger justice. But Brooks men met their match in the Conner family East Texas master hunters and jailbreakers who were wanted for their part in a bloody family feud. The full story of Company F's showdown with the Conner family is finally being told with long - dead voices heard for the first time. This truly hidden history paints the grim picture of neighbors and relatives becoming snitches and bounty hunters and a company of Texas Rangers who waded into the conflict only to find themselves in over their heads and in the fight of their lives.
Title: Red Sky Morning The Epic True Story Of Texas Ranger Company F
Author(s): Pappalardo Joe
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250887375
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/17/2023
Category: Political Control & Freedoms