Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger (Frances B. Vick Series)

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John Harris Rogers (1863–1930) served in Texas law enforcement for more than four decades, as a Texas Ranger, Deputy and U.S. Marshal, city police chief, and in the private sector as a security agent. He is recognized in history as one of the most legendary “Four Captains” of the Ranger force that helped make the transition from the Frontier Battalion days into the twentieth century, yet no one has fully researched and written about his life. Paul N. Spellman now presents the first full-length biography of this enigmatic man.

During his years as a Ranger, Rogers observed and participated in the civilizing of West Texas. As the railroads moved out in the 1880s, towns grew up too quickly, lawlessness was once the rule, and the Rangers were soon called in to establish order. Rogers was once nearly at all times there. Likewise he participated in one of the vital most dramatic and significant events throughout the closing years of the Frontier Battalion: the Brown County fence cutting wars; the East Texas Conner Fight; the El Paso/Langtry Prizefight; the riots throughout the Laredo Quarantine; and the hunts for Hill Loftis and Gregorio Cortez. Rogers was once the lawman who captured Cortez to close out one of the crucial infamous chases in Texas history.

Unlike the more gregarious Bill McDonald, Captain Rogers had a quiet manner that kept him from the public limelight; then again, he, John Brooks, and John Hughes shared the same experiences as McDonald throughout the almost two decades they led the Ranger companies. Unique to Rogers’ career was once his devout Christian faith that was once on display on almost all occasions. Rogers was once wont to use the Bible as steadily as his six-gun, both with dramatic effect. That and his constant devotion to his family set him except the standard lawmen of that era. He was once a man of the law and a man of God, a rare combination at the turn of the century.

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