Colonel Jack Hays
Subtitle: Texas frontier leader and California builder.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Hays, John Coffee, 1817-1883.; Texas Rangers.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.; Frontier and pioneer life -- California.
Description: John Coffee Hays was a soldier, surveyor, Ranger, officer in the Mexican War, and explorer, Tennessee and Mississppi were already part of him. He was one of the keymen who maintained the Republic of Texas and then helped make it into a state. Yet he left San Antopnio for the Gila River country to head an Indian agency, and went on to California, where he was a sheriff, Federal surveyor general, and town developer before he entered his long period as gentleman ranchman and capitalist, to say nothing of his influence in politics and his exemplary life.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 405-410.