Captain J. A. Brooks, Texas Ranger

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245 BIBLIOGRAPHY The official records of the Texas Rangers are housed primarily among the Papers of the Adjutant General of Texas in the Texas State Archives in Austin. These include the monthly returns filed by the company commanders of the Frontier Battalion (through 1901), the reports and files from the Ranger Force (after 1901), the correspondence files of the Adjutant General, and the files that include company Muster Rolls and individual Ranger Service Records. Also included are the annual and biennial reports of the Adjutant General to the Governor, 1890–1908. Other primary sources for this biography include: Brooks Family Papers, including the unpublished memoirs of J. A. Brooks, and various correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs, in possession of Mrs. Beverly Brewton of Pasadena, Texas, granddaughter of Captain Brooks. Brooks County Clerk’s office files, Courthouse, Falfurrias, Texas. Brooks County Heritage Museum Collection, Texas Ranger Room, Falfurrias , Texas. Census Records of the United States for Bourbon County, Kentucky (1850, 1860, 1870) and various counties of Texas (1870, 1880, 1890, and 1900). Collin County, Texas, Tax Rolls, 1878, County Clerk’s Office, Plano. Estates Settled Book G, Dower and Division Records, Reference #2694, Bourbon County Courthouse, Paris, Kentucky. Gammel, H. P. N. (ed). The Laws of Texas, 1897–1902. Vol. XI. Austin: Gammel Book Company, 1902. Government Documents: “Proceedings of the 31st Texas Legislature (1909–1910) and its called sessions, House and Senate Journals;” “Proceedings of the 32nd Texas Legislature (1911) and its called session, House and Senate Journals.” Governor of Texas Papers: John Ireland (1883–1887); L. S. Ross (1887–1891); James S. Hogg (1891–1895); Charles A. Culberson (1895–1899); Joseph D. Sayers (1899–1903); S. W. T. Lanham (1903–1907); Thomas M. Campbell (1907–1911); and Oscar B. Colquitt (1911–1915), Texas State Archives, Austin. National Archives and Records Administration, Ft. Worth: Records of the Western Arkansas District Court, 1887, Files #15, 112, and T16; and NARA in College Park, Maryland: Records of the office of the pardon attorney and its predecessors, 1887, Record Group 60, File K-713, Box 199. Newspaper accounts from the Alice Echo, Chickasaw Daily Express, Corpus Christi Caller Times, Brooks County Texan, Ector County Democrat, Falfurrias Facts, Galveston Daily News, San Antonio Daily Express, and Uvalde Leader News. Tabor, George R. “Biennial Report of the State Health Officer of Texas to the Governor, from November 1, 1900, to August 31, 1902.” Papers of Texas Governor Joseph D. Sayers. Vertical Files, J. A. Brooks, Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum, Waco. Published Primary Sources Aten, Ira. Six and One-Half Years in the Ranger Service: The Memoirs of Sergeant Ira Aten, Company D, Texas Rangers. Bandera: Frontier Times, 1945. Bibliography 246 Davis, Charles Belmont, ed., Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis, New York: Scribner’s, 1917. Davis, Richard Harding. The West From a Car-Window. New York: Harper, 1892. Lasater, Dale. Falfurrias: Ed C. Lasater and the Development of South Texas. College Station: Texas A & M Press, 1985. These next two writers knew Captain Brooks personally, interviewed him for their research, and considered themselves friends of his: Sterling, William Warren. Trails and Trials of a Texas Ranger. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. Webb, Walter Prescott. The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1935. Secondary Sources Adair, W. S. “Rangers 40 years Ago Had No Easy Life.” Frontier Times 4 (1927): 41–43. Adams, Paul. “The Unsolved Murder of Ben Thompson.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 48 (1945): 321–29. Amberson, Mary Margaret McAllen, James A. McAllen and Margaret H. McAllen. I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2003. Anders, Evan. Boss Rule in South Texas: The Progressive Era. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Audry, Mrs. William Breckenridge. “Early Bourbon Families.” Kentuckian Citizen, June 20, 1944. Baker, Catherine G. “The Man of the Hour.” The Junior Historian 26:1 (September, 1965): 13–16, 27–29. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Company , 1889. Bibliography 247 Brooks County Historical Commission. Brooks County Elected Officials, 1911–1978. Falfurrias, 1979. Casdorph, Paul. A History of the Republican Party in Texas, 1865–1965. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1965. Casto, Stanley D. Settlement of the Cibolo-Nueces Strip: A Partial History of La Salle County. Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press...