Fighting Stock: John S. "Rip" Ford of Texas (Texas Biography): 3 - Hardcover

McCaslin, Richard B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875654215 ISBN 13: 9780875654218

Publisher: Texas Christian University Press, 2011

Synopsis

McCaslin’s in-depth historical detail paints a full picture of this famous Texan, a fighter not only on the battlefield, but on the civic and political fields as well.

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About the Author

Richard B. McCaslin, is the author of Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862 (LSU Press, 1994), which won the Tullis Prize and a commendation from the American Association for State and Local History. He has also written Lee in the Shadow of Washington (LSU, 2001), winner of the Slatten Award and Laney Prize. His other works include three volumes in the Portraits of Conflict series published by the University of Arkansas, which won the Freeman Award. He also wrote The Last Stronghold: The Campaign for Fort Fisher (McWhiney Foundation, 2003) and At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997 (Texas State Historical Association, 2007), which received the Award of Merit from the Texas Philosophical Society, and he edited A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie (University of Tennessee Press, 2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875654215
• ISBN 13: 9780875654218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368