Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest

Hughes, W. J.; Walter L. Buenger (Foreword)

ISBN 10: 0806110848 / ISBN 13: 9780806110844

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1973

About this Item

First Edition stated, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/ sunned spine, bent bottom corners, else Fine and unmarked. 300pp inc. Index; illustrated in reproductions, map. 328 p.

Seller Inventory # 044586

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806110848
• ISBN 13: 9780806110844
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition (stated).
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana
  • Non-Fiction
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

"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

About the Author

W. J. Hughes held degrees from the University of Colorado, Western Illinois University, and Texas Technological College. He taught history at Mankato State College in Minnesota.

Walter L. Buenger is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.