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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 1800
- Book Series
- Number 6 in The Texas Local Series
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
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- ISBN
- 9781574418408
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
ISBN-10
1574418408
ISBN-13
9781574418408
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050397757
Product Key Features
Book Title
John B. Denton : the Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Book Series
Texas Local Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-034650
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "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, "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
Series Volume Number
6
Dewey Decimal
976.455505092
Synopsis
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 ......, 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., 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. In this extensive, in-depth look into the life and death of Denton, Mike Cochran has made use of new materials not available to previous biographers to help bring the story to life. John B. Denton 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. He was a participant in the first missionary effort to bring Methodism to Texas, answering a call from William B. Travis to bring Methodists to the new republic. Denton then became a ranger on the frontier, ultimately being 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. He was leading a small raiding party that had separated from the larger group led by General Edward Tarrant when he was shot by native defenders. 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, and by the self-aggrandizing stories told by members of the Tarrant raiding party. His death came at a time when entrepreneurs were trying to attract Anglo settlers to the Republic of Texas and were especially apt to glorify the early settlers. Denton was further made a martyr of the church by Methodist historians. 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. This is the definitive, fact-based biography of John B. Denton.
LC Classification Number
F390.C655 2021
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