{"id":234,"date":"2018-12-31T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:21:41","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

8.2.15\u00a0\u00a0 Ranger captain\u2019s short life was anything but boring<\/h1>\n

Ranger Captain Frank Jones was killed in 1893<\/span> on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. He was thirty-seven.<\/p>\n

Author Bob Alexander<\/span> has penned a full-length biography (nearly 500 pages with notes) of Jones \u2014 Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands: The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones<\/span> (University of North Texas Press<\/a>, $34.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

\u201cMany well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name,\u201d Alexander writes, \u201cbut not the man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank Jones joined the Rangers at age nineteen and served with the Frontier Battalion. \u201c[His] law enforcing life was anything but boring,\u201d the author says. \u201cHis biography is jam-packed with the hunts for dangerous desperadoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander is the author of several other Texas Ranger books from UNT Press: Riding Lucifer\u2019s Line: Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border;<\/span> Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten: Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier;<\/span> Bad Company and Burnt Powder: Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest;<\/span> and Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Hungry dragon:<\/span> Abilene author Penny Parker Klostermann\u2019s<\/span> first book, There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight,<\/span> makes its national debut on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rare for a first-time author \u2014 especially a children\u2019s author \u2014 to land a deal with a major publisher like Random House. Not only that, but in a full-color trade magazine insert promoting its fall list of children\u2019s books, Random House put Klostermann\u2019s book on the cover.<\/p>\n

The book, delightfully illustrated by Ben Mantle<\/span> of London, tells the tale of one very hungry dragon who gobbles up almost everything in the kingdom. When he swallows a moat and begins to bloat, he roars, \u201cI\u2019ve had more than enough of this swallowing stuff.\u201d But now what?<\/p>\n

Klostermann, a retired teacher, has a second book with Random House scheduled to come out in 2017.<\/p>\n

Cowboy poet:<\/span> George Rhoades,<\/span> a retired journalism professor from the University of Texas at Arlington, lives in Oklahoma now and has published two books of mostly cowboy poetry worthy of mention.<\/p>\n

The first one, Along the Chisholm Trail and Other Poems,<\/span> came out three years ago and won several awards and a lot of high praise from readers who appreciated his classic, upbeat approach to writing poems that have rhyme and rhythm.<\/p>\n

Now he has produced a second volume, After the Chisholm,<\/span><\/a><\/span> consisting of about a hundred poems dealing with cowboys, rural life, and other observations. One of my favorites is \u201cThe Last Newspaper,\u201d about a future-day grandfather explaining to his grandson how newspapers informed people back in the day before everything became \u201cshort and quick and on a screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhoades\u2019s books, from OutskirtsPress.com<\/a><\/span>, are $9.95 paperback and $5 e-book.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author of 101 Essential Texas Books.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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