Noah Smithwick
ASIN: B00TZI0IZ0
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 364
"Smithwick offers considerable insight into the early Texas Rangers of the 1830s." - Savage Frontier (2007)"Entertaining and enlightening. Texan or not, don't miss out on this book!" -Kindle Customer Review"Smithwick gave up the life of a Ranger...during his stay with the Comanches there was little trouble with them on the frontier." - The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense (2010)"Smithwick brokered small steps toward peace between the Penateka Comanche band and the Texians." - The Texas Rangers (2015)Early Texas Ranger Noah Smithwick came to Texas in 1827 and his memoirs are considered the among the best accounts of early Texas life. Smithwick fought for Texas’ independence from Mexico and served in the Battle of San Jacinto and was present in Austin in 1845 when Texas became the 28th state. Later he became a Texas Ranger and fought with Col. John Henry Moore against the ...