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The Violent Lives of John Wesley Hardin, His Brothers, and Associates
Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown are noted experts on the life and times of John Wesley Hardin. They have written numerous books and magazine arti...
The Short Life and Elusive Legend of a Texas Desperado
America’s Wild West created an untold number of notorious characters, and in southwestern Texas, John King Fisher (1855-1884) was foremost among the...
The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas
History, Rangers, Quarrels, Trials....
As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to ...
From the Red River to the Rio Grande
Jesse Lee Hall (1849-1911) was one of many young men seeking a new life following the Civil War, when he left North Carolina to find adventure in Texa...
Thomas C. (Pidge) Robinson came to Texas from Virginia at the age of 27, fleeing a feud with a neighbor who opposed Robinson’s amorous intentions to...
Sporting Man of the Wild West
Often times the smaller the man, the harder the punch--this adage was true in the case of diminutive Luke Short, whose brief span of years played out ...
John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West
John Wesley Hardin spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive. Hardin left an autobiography in wh...
A Victim of Texas Reconstruction Violence
In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-k...
Portrait of a Shootist
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The first full and complete modern biography of Texas Ranger Captain Hughes, who served as a Texas Ranger from 1887 until early 1915--longer than any ...
The Texas Rangers. The words evoke exciting images of daring, courage, high adventure. The Rangers began as a handful of men protecting their homes fr...
Portrait of a Gunfighter
Ben Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their lives than he did. ...
One historian described Luling in the 1870s as the toughest town in Texas. Along with the railroad came notorious gamblers who were ready to take a ma...
Historians Chuck Parsons and Donaly E. Brice present a complete picture of N. O. Reynolds (1846-1922), a Texas Ranger who brought a greater respect fo...
The Life and Adventures of Nashville Franklyn Leslie
Nashville Franklyn “Buckskin Frank” Leslie was a man of mystery during his lifetime. His reputation has rested on two gunfights—both in storied ...
The Life and Times of a Fighting Man
The first authentic biography of one of the most famous of the nineteenth century Texas Rangers -- Captain Leander H. McNelly. No history of the murde...
Examines the events leading up to and following the capture of one of the deadliest gunfighters of all time, giving special recognition to the Florida...
The Law in South Texas
A biography of the Texas Ranger turned Texas Sheriff, who was assassinated by outlaws in 1886....
Account of a shoot-out in Shreveport, Louisiana on November 26, 1870, between cowboys from Texas and the Shreveport police force....