Rip Ford's Texas

An original source history detailing the years of Texas’s independence and annexation from a nineteenth-century Texas Ranger and politician.   The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon “Rip” Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected representative, and above all, soldier and Indi