Buck Barry Texas Ranger and Frontiersman

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5 Stars Excellent
The wild west the way it was not how it is depicted. First person accounts allow us to bypass the slant given by historians if they are written with restraint. This is as close as we will get to living during the era. A truly excellent story.

5 Stars Epic story of a Texan Hero
Comments on “Buck Barry, Texas Ranger” edited by J. Greer.

Like John Salmon “RIP” Ford and Sam Houston, Buck Barry was one of the great men who “made” Texas. Ranger, farmer and sheriff, he fought Indians and outlaws before, while and after the American Civil War. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Mexican War and he led the “Texas Frontier” Regiment on the border of the Llano Estacado during the Civil War. Never his men met a Yankee unit, but they had to deal with Comanche ad Kiowas raids on the Texas Northern counties. Thanks to the editor James K. Greer, Buck Barry’s private papers and reminiscences are a fascinating epic never dull to read and a welcome and useful contribution to the history of Texas and of the Confederate States.

Serge P. Noirsain, Belgian Historian. Author of “La flotte europ