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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.2092
EAN: 9780292716261
ISBN: 0292716265
Label: University of Texas Press
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 253
Publication Date: February 01, 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Sales Rank: 25627
Studio: University of Texas Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger. Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border—and clamored for more. Now in One Ranger Returns, Jackson reopens his case files to tell more unforgettable stories, while also giving readers a deeply personal view of what being a Texas Ranger has meant to him and his family.
Jackson recalls his five-year pursuit of two of America's most notorious serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. He sets the record straight about the role of the Texas Rangers during the United Farm Workers strike in the Rio Grande Valley in 1966-1967. Jackson also describes the frustration of trying to solve a cold case from 1938—the brutal murder of a mother and daughter in the lonely desert east of Van Horn. He presents a rogue's gallery of cattle rustlers, drug smugglers, and a teetotaling bootlegger named Tom Bybee, a modest, likeable man who became an ax murderer. And in an eloquent concluding chapter, Jackson pays tribute to the Rangers who have gone before him, as well as those who keep the peace today.
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Book No. 1 was by far the best, but I enjoyed this book as well. There were some good stories about his family.
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Sometimes there is not enough material for a second book, and this sequel is proof of that fact. Mr. Jackson has interesting tales to tell; his wife and sons do not. I highly recommend One Ranger; the "Return" should have stayed away.
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Couldn't put the book down. Great sequel to his first. A great sense of history in plain spoken words. Hope he writes another.
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Seemed a reach to have enough material for a second book--not as interesting as the first book.
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Nice to hear the other side of the story. Joaquin Jackson's books are a good read.
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