Bob Alexander: 11 books
Riding Lucifer's Line
Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is—or at least can be—risky business, hazardous to ones health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: “As their predecessors for over one...
Winchester Warriors
Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
The Texas Rangers were institutionally birthed in 1874 with the formation of the Frontier Battalion. They were tasked with interdicting Indian incursions into the frontier settlements and dealing with the lawlessness running rampant throughout Texas. In an effort to put a human face on the Rangers, Bob...
Rawhide Ranger
Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unitand Atenwould have a lively time making their mark in nineteenth-century Texas. The preponderance of Texas...
Texas Rangers
Lives, Legend, Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about...
Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands
The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length...
Whiskey River Ranger
The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company-s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894), "A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men." Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw "was one of the worst and most...
Old Riot, New Ranger
Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Award-winning author Bob Alexander presents a biography of 20th-century Ranger Captain Jack Dean, who holds the distinction of being one of only five men to serve in both the Officer’s Corps of the Rangers and also as a President-appointed United States Marshal. Jack Dean’s service in Texas Ranger...
Bad Company and Burnt Powder
Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered...
SharePoint 2010 at Work
Tricks, Traps, and Bold Opinions
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
If you work with SharePoint, you may have discovered that there are countless tricks for using this platform to solve real-world problems—and you certainly wouldn’t mind learning some of them. That’s the purpose behind EndUserSharePoint, a community site that lets end users share ingenious new...
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
by Liz Barclay, Colin Barrow, Paul Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Written by a team of business and fi nance experts, Starting & Running a Business All-In-One For Dummies is a complete guide to every aspect of setting up and growing a successful business. Featuring straight-talking advice on everything from business planning and marketing, managing staff and...