Rangers & Pioneers of Texas

Rangers, Pioneers, Blood, and the Truth

"Meaty with the character of ready-to-fight but peace-seeking Texas pioneers. Sowell will some day be recognized as an extraordinary chronicler. A graphic book down to bedrock." 

- J. Frank Dobie on Rangers & Pioneers of Texas

Dobie loved this book, and thought a lot of its author. Unfortunately, in an age of political correctness and revisionism, A. J. Sowell has been set aside.

Sowell's history is not all clean and corporate. It's a Texan's history.

It's not all neat and tidy, and it's the loose ends that make it interesting.

What do you want to read about first?

• How Texas Rangers survived off the land
• How some Texians waited out the revolution in safety...at sea
• How rattlesnakes were so big and numerous in a prickly pear flat that Rangers pursuing bandits had to turn back
• How his mother refused to eat at the same table with Santa Anna
• What it was like to face Indians in battle for the first time
• How the Bowie knife came to have a guard
• A survivor's account of the Goliad massacre
• Colorful things drunken cowboys liked to holler
• The names of over 500 Texas Rangers and pioneers
• His first hand account of the Texas Rangers' Wichita Mountain Campaign of 1871
• Accounts of over 100 battles with Mexicans and Indians
• The exploits of Edward Burleson, Jack Hays, Rip Ford, Big Foot Wallace, Mustang Grey and others
• How the news of the Alamo's fall was brought to Gonzales

This list can go on and on. These are true stories you will love repeating.