| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2 | The History Cooperative

*John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman*. Canseco-Keck History Series. By Chuck Parsons. Foreword by Tobin Armstrong, afterword by Elmer Kelton. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xv + 150 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $20.00.)
Chuck Parsons, well-known western writer and editor of the journal of the National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History, has become the living expert on the history of the Texas Rangers in the 1870s. In this work, Parsons has separated the life and times of the good-looking John B. Armstrong (1850–1913) from the legendary tales that surround the operations of the Texas Rangers.	1
Born in Tennessee in 1850, Armstrong came to Texas by the early 1870s. Here he became a member of the Travis Rifles, a military outfit in Austin. Their most noteworthy action was to become embroiled in the dispute over who should occupy the governor's mansion—outgoing Reconstruction governor E. J. Davis or the newly elected governor, Richard Coke (championed by the Travis Rifles). Although losing an election to fill the office of city marshal of Austin, Armstrong took his most important career step in 1875: he joined a special state force under the command of Leander H. McNelly.	. . .

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