Return of the Texas Ranger
When an old-time Texas Ranger bursts into the little town of Kingsville, violence erupts with a bang. Whitey Wilson, well-known for his lone-wolf personality, charges through the town like a hungry cougar.
Red Regan, the sheriff of Kleberg County, is an old Texas Ranger himself, and Whitey Wilson’s partner during the Border Wars a decade earlier. Whitey saved Red’s life after a major battle, when Red received the wound that ushered him out of the Rangers.
Now, Red wants to keep his town peaceful. But what does the old Ranger, Whitey Wilson, really want? Does he want the sheriff’s job – or his wife?
When gunplay ensues, Sheriff Red Regan is himself accused of murder. Was Whitey Wilson responsible?
Follow the further adventures of Red Regan, Whitey Wilson and Nacho Ybarra in this sequel to Guns Across the Rio.
National Indie Excellence Award winner!
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ISBN 1-4392-1997-4
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“Gripping, immensely readable, with true-to-life characters.”
“You will be turning the pages late into the night just to discover what will happen next in this complex western mystery as it has more twists than a timber rattler and is just as deadly.“
I’m D. A. Crossley, Jr., a retired professor at the University of Georgia. My nickname is “Dac.” I’m an emeritus professor of ecology. And a curator emeritus of ticks and mites in the Georgia Museum of Natural History.
And I write fiction.
I grew up in a little city in south Texas, Kingsville. It's the home of the famous King Ranch. Grandma King donated land for the city. It was also the home of railroad shops for the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico railway company. Everybody in town worked for the railroad or the ranch, or did business with them.
After WWII I went to the local college, Texas A&I, and soon migrated to Lubbock, to Texas Tech in the Panhandle. I started as an English major but fell under the influence of a charismatic biology teacher. I never looked back.
My doctorate was in Entomology at the University of Kansas, where I studied the classification of chiggers - redbugs. I think I'm still the U.S. expert. I'm the survivor.
After the University I was hired at Oak Ridge National Lab as an ecologist. Which I surely wasn't. In those days (1950's) almost nobody was. I looked at the effects of radioactive waste on forests and fields. A fortunate turn brought me to the University of Georgia, where I had the privilege of working with some excellent ecologists.
With retirement looking me in the face, I turned to my first career choice - writing. And hit my stride in writing about South Texas in its pre-civilized days. The Old West lived on for decades down near the Border and in the Wild Horse Desert. Family stories and tales I was told as a child form the basis for my Texas novels.
I am a widower with one daughter, Mary Freeman, a stream ecologist of note, and two sons Greg and Steve Blankenship, contractors, green builders.
