Description: A retired Texas Ranger recalls a career that took him from shootouts in South Texas to film sets in Hollywood.
Brief description: H. JOAQUIN JACKSON (1935-2016) retired from the Texas Rangers in 1993, after a twenty-seven-year career. In 2006, he was awarded the William Penn Award for public service by the Penn Club of Philadelphia.
Review Quotes: A powerful, moving read. . . . One Ranger is as fascinating as the memoirs of nineteenth-century Rangers James Gillett and George Durham, and the histories by Frederick Wilkins and Walter Prescott Webb--and equally as important.-- "True West"