The Fascinating Accounts of H. Joaquin Jackson, Texas Ranger
FINALIST:Western Writers of America SPUR Award
Optioned for a major motion picture.
"Joaquin
Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day
Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true,
sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could
hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb."
~ Elmer Kelton, voted the Greatest
Western Novelist of the Twentieth Century by the Western Writers
of America and award-winning author of 'The Time It Never Rained'
and 'The Good Old Boys'
" No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger. Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories -- and clamored for more. Now in One Ranger: Returns, Jackson reopens his case files to tell more unforgettable stories. He recalls his five-year pursuit of two of America's most nortorious serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. He sets the record straight about the role of the Texas Rangers during the United Farm Workers strike in the Rio Grande Valley. Jackson describes the frustration of trying to solve a cold case from 1938--the brutal murder of a mother and daughter in the lonely desert east of Van Horn. Jackson pays tribute to the rangers who have gone before him, as well as those who keep the peace today."
~ UT Press
"There's adventure
here, and wit, and camaraderie, and poignancy, all delivered with
a certain swagger by a man who never wanted any other life but the
one he chose, and who did his best as he saw it all along the way."
~ Bill Wittliff, distinguished photographer,
writer, screenwriter, and producer, whose credits include 'The Perfect
Storm', 'The Black Stallion',' Legends of the Fall', and' Lonesome Dove'
"As a memoir, ONE RANGER (UT Press) is all over the map, but, oh, the places you'll go in this collection of anecdotes from retired Texas Ranger H. JOAQUIN JACKSON, with DAVID MARION WILKINSON. Jackson serves as a folksy but savvy tour guide to a career that stretched from 1966 to 1993 and from a prison riot shoot-out at Carrizo Springs to a horrific homicide in Big Bend's Colorado Canyon, with countless stops in between. Jackson painstakingly argues that he's simply telling "one ranger's" story from his personal perspective. But the writing smacks of the truths that are hard-won from a lifetime of dealing out justice-sometimes on horseback, like the Lone Ranger used to do-in a lonesome terrain where your word is only as good as the gun and the reputation that back it up."
~ Mike Shea, Texas Monthly
