Mike Cox, Author at Mike Cox

Mike Cox–Texana–October 16, 2009September 14, 2020

It’s a literary cliche for a writer to write about his adventures while on the road trying to peddle his […]

Mike Cox–Texana–September 24, 2009September 14, 2020

Just got word that the first volume of my Texas Ranger history, “The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” […]

Mike Cox–Texana–August 27, 2009September 14, 2020

I first met Elmer Kelton in the spring of 1967 when my granddad took me to San Angelo to help […]

Mike Cox–Texana–August 5, 2009September 14, 2020

The invention of pocketbooks, those ubiquitous paperbacks no vacationer would go to the beach without, changed the publishing world in […]

Mike Cox–Texana–October 29, 2008September 14, 2020

Twenty-three million people, give or take a few, live in Texas. And some of them are not like you and […]

Mike Cox–Texana–October 29, 2008September 14, 2020

The weather’s cool and the Halloween decorations are up. What better time to sit by the fire place and read […]

Mike Cox–Texana, West Texas–September 29, 2008September 14, 2020

Thomas Zickefoose had a notably unusual last name and one other distinction. When he died at 93 in 1942, the […]

Mike Cox–Texana–June 16, 2008September 14, 2020

Every wordsmith interested in writing about the events of yesterday should print the following quotation, frame the words, and hang […]

Mike Cox–Texana, Texas Rangers–June 6, 2008September 14, 2020

Only slightly newer than a brush-scarred Winchester Model 1895 with a rusty barrel, the concept of “One Ranger, One Riot” […]

Mike Cox–Texana–May 5, 2008September 14, 2020

Ask most Americans what happened on May 5, 1862 and they’re likely to guess it had something to do with […]