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John B. Denton Volume 6: The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger(Texas Local Series)

John B. Denton Volume 6: The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger(Texas Local Series)


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Denton County and the City of Denton are named for pioneer preacher, lawyer, and Indian fighter John B. Denton, but little has been known about him. He was an orphan in frontier Arkansas who became a circuit-riding Methodist preacher and an important member of a movement of early settlers bringing civilization to North Texas. After becoming a ranger on the frontier, he ultimately was killed in the Tarrant Expedition, a Texas Ranger raid on a series of villages inhabited by various Caddoan and other tribes near Village Creek on May 24, 1841.Denton’s true story has been lost or obscured by the persistent mythologizing by publicists for Texas, especially by pulp western writer Alfred W. Arrington. Cochran separates the truth from the myth in this meticulous biography, which also contains a detailed discussion of the controversy surrounding the burial of John B. Denton and offers some alternative scenarios for what happened to his body after his death on the frontier.

About the Author :
MIKE COCHRAN, a former Denton city councilmember, served as chair of Denton's Historic Landmark Commission and president of the Historical Society of Denton County, and continues to maintain the website dentonhistory.net. Cochran has written a catalog of O'Neil Ford's Denton works. He resides in Denton, Texas.

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"An impressively well researched, organized and presented study, John B. Denton rescues from an undeserved obscurity the life story and achievements of an extraordinary man who lived in extraordinary times."--Midwest Book Review "Cochran's volume is exceedingly well-researched and documented, and it culls its findings from numerous and diverse sources. In a way, an important aspect of his study is its careful clearing away of the lingering falsehoods and misapprehensions concerning the life of John B. Denton."--Review of Texas Books "Denton was a good man who died avenging the deaths of a friend's wife and children. And John B. Denton, who was loved by peers, gained legendary status after his death."--Denton Record-Chronicle "Readers interested in the history of North Texas and Methodism in the Republic of Texas will find this book of interest. It also will be fascinating for scholars interested in the mythologizing of Texas frontiersmen."--Journal of Southern History "He was a Methodist preacher, a missionary, a Texas Ranger, a lawyer and an often-overlooked figure in Texas history. Cochran does much to right that wrong, including a search for the burial spot of Denton's body, which has been lost to the dust of time. . . Texas history enthusiasts would do themselves a favor to put this book on their must-read pile."--WWA Roundup "This is an important biography of a Texas legend, one who is still remembered for giving his name to a Texas city and county."--Tombstone Epitaph "The life of Methodist circuit rider and Texas Rangers leader John B. Denton has been professionally documented in Mike Cochran's new biography. In it, he rights the wrongs by presenting full evidence on details ranging from slight (what was his real middle name?) to essential (where was Captain Denton really buried?). The full story of the namesake of my own Denton County, Texas, who gave his life during a battle against Native American forces in North Texas, will be treasured by many fans of early Texas history, the Texas Rangers, and Methodism."--Stephen L. Moore, author of the four-volume series Savage Frontier: Rangers, Rifleman and Indian Wars in Texas (UNT Press) "John B. Denton is full of fine research, flows well, and places some original thinking into the mix. It is a most readable and very useful look at a man who left little behind but family."--Skipper Steely, author of War in the Redlands and editor of Red River Pioneers "I know of few people in this world who care as much about their hometown as Mike Cochran. It's only fitting that he takes up the mantle of telling the life story of John B. Denton, his town's namesake and a Methodist minister and lawyer who died protecting the frontier. Cochran separates fact from fiction in this biography."--Larry Francell, author of How Indian Emily Saved Fort Davis: A Legend Revisited and former director of the Museum of the Big Bend


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781574418408
  • Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: Texas Local Series
  • Weight: 542 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1574418408
  • Publisher Date: 30 Dec 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger
  • Width: 152 mm


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