Although Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were more celebrated, Buck Barry did as much or more to tame the Old Southwest.
These pages show him fighting outlaws and Indians from the Red Rive.
In 1845 young James Buckner Barry joined the newly formed Texas Rangers and for the next twenty years his life was one of unremitting activity and danger.
His memoirs are never dull, and no wonder.
During a long and useful life he was a professional soldier, stock farmer, sheriff, and member of the legislature.
Although Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were more celebrated, Buck Barry did as much or more to tame the Old Southwest