Author: HUGHES, W.J.
Title: Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old South West
Description: purple, University of Oklahoma Press. 1990. (ISBN: 9780806110844). Paperback, 14 x 1.8 x 21.6 cm. Condition good, clean. ref ZKVQ "Few newcomes became so thoroughly Texas as did Rip Ford. His career reads like a dime novel. He was in fact the hero of several such fiction pieces. He was born in South Carolina with the ordinary name of John Salmon Ford. His father, originally a Virginian, drifted west to Lincoln County, Tennessee. The boy quickly went through the country school and at sixteen years of age taught himself for a time. At nineteen he 'read medicine' under Dr. James G. Barksdale, the basis of his later part-time career as a frontier medical man. The book is indispensable for the history of Texas and for certain aspects of the Mexican War."-- JOURNAL OF THE WEST. Used: Acceptable.

Keywords: 9780806110844


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