 Hard Cover $14.95 Buy | John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger
Judy Alter
John Barclay Armstrong was a lieutenant in the Texas Rangers, a marshal, a rancher, and civic leader. But he is best remembered for capturing outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Hardin was wanted for killing Comanche County Deputy Charles Webb in May 1874. Armstrong arrested Hardin as he boarded a train in Florida and brought him back to Texas, where he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Like many young men after the Civil War, Armstrong left his home in Tennessee to find his fortune in the West. He ended up in Austin and on April 1, 1875 joined McNelly's unit of the Texas Rangers, the oldest state law enforcement agency... More » |