A Texas Ranger

N. A JENNINGS

Publication: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899, New York

First edition. 8vo. Color, pictorial cloth, x [2], 321 pp., Outstanding account of Jennings' life as a Texas Ranger in the late 1870's. "The first edition is exceedingly scarce...contains much material on Texas gunmen, such as John Wesley Hardin and King Fisher, and the Taylor-Sutton Feud and other border troubles."--Ramon Adams. "...this is one of the most interesting accounts of the life of the Texas Rangers in the late 1870's."--John H. Jenkins. The author served under L. H. McNelly, from May, 1874 through February, 1877. It was a dangerous time in South Texas, with Mexican bandits under Cortina and hundreds of other outlaws in a lawless land. An exceptionally clean, bright copy of an important Texas Ranger classic. As New. Protected in a custom clamshell case.