9780877190790 - Texas High Sheriffs de Sitton, Thad (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. xiv, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. ; textured green-backed black boards ; dj. The rural Texas sheriff was the master of the county courthouse, feudal lord of the county territory, manhunter and keeper of the bloodhounds. The city police stayed in the county seat, the Department of Public Safety troopers patrolled the state highways, but the sheriff or his deputies might be anywhere, anytime, always on call with a 24-hour patrol. The book provides a look at the old ways of law enforcement as practed by the rural sheriffs before 1965. The author tells the story of eleven of the rural Texas sheriffs: Tom Brown, Jess Sweeten, Corbett Akins, Gaston Boykin, T.W. Lane, Frank Brunt, H.F. and Loretta Fenton, B. Rufus Jordan, Truman Maddox, I.R. Hoskins, and Jim Scarborough III.

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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. A fresh, as-new hardcover copy with a clean, well-bound interior. Housed in a dustjacket in as-new condition. The only sign of use includes a tiny tear and evidence of shelf wear to the top portion of the spine. Otherwise this book is in top condition. 6"x9.25", xiv+279 pages. "Thad Sitton interviewed twenty current and former sheriffs from across the state whose careers in some cases spanned more than thirty years. Eleven of the most lively and significant accounts were chosen for this book." To access more books on Texas history, go to Abebooks.com and search using our unique codeword TXCOHST, or visit our shop in Fort Worth. Language: eng.

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