"Centennial series of the Association Former Students, Texas A & M Univ. ; no. 50." Hay's colorful reputation and a host of nicknames earned during battles.

Joining the legendary Texas Rangers at the tender age of twenty-two, Captain Jack becomes the captain of his own company within a year and transforms the Rangers into the most effective cavalry force in history

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.

Color illustration on front cover of color photograph of a western saddle, rifle, rattlesnake and steer skull lying in the sand.