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1-2 Hays' Tennessee background: James Kimmins Greer, Colonel Jack Hays: Texas Frontier Leader

and California Builder (New York: Dutton, 1952; rpt. College Station: Texas A & M Press,

1987), pp. 15-18.

2 Jackson's deed to land: Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire,

1767-1821 (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. 130-31.

2 Harmon Hays: Greer, op. cit., pp. 17-18.

2 Jack Hays' early years: Ibid.

2 Hays' schooling: Greer, op. cit., pp. 15, 19 [Greer has him attending "Davidson Academy," earlier

name for the University of Nashville]; J. Marvin Hunter has Hays going "to an academy near

Nashville," in an editorial note in Frontier Times, Vol. 4, No.8 (May 1927), page 19; see Hunter's

"Jack Hays, the Intrepid Texas Ranger," Frontier Times, Vol. 4, No.5 (February 1927), pp. 25-40;

Vol. 4, No.6 (March 1927), pp. 17-31; Vol. 4, No.7 (April 1927), pp. 17-31; Vol. 4, No.8

(May 1927), pp. 17-31; rpt. as [Hunter uncredited] Jack Hays, the Intrepid Texas Ranger

(Bandera, Texas: FrontierTimes, n.d. [1927?]). [copy: Tennessee State Library and Archives,

Nashville.]

2 Hays' departure to Texas: Greer, op. cit., pp. 79-89.

3 Texas Rangers' purchase of revolvers: Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Plains (Boston:

Ginn, 1931; rpt. Lincoln: The Univ. of Nebraska Press [Bison Books], 1981), pp. 173-75;

Webb, "The Captain Comes: John C. Hays," in his The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier

Defense (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1935; rpt. Austin: The Univ. of Texas Press, 1965),

pp. 67-88 [pp. 84-88]; James E. Serven, Colt Firearms (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1954),

pp. ; William B. Edwards, The Story-- of Colt's Revolver (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole,

1957), pp. .

3 fight at Sisters Creek: Webb, The Great Plains, op. cit., pp. 173-75; Greer, pp. 95-98; Serven, p. ;

Edwards, pp. .3 fight at Neuches Canyon: Greer, pp. 102-04.

4 "Devil Yack" anecdote: Webb, The Great: Plains, pp. 173-75; Greer, page 104.

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4 Colt revolver improvements: Webb, op. cit., 175-79; Serven, pp ; Edwards, pp. .

5 post-war conflicts...Polk's intervention: Greer, pp.168-70.

5 Hays' readiness to fight guerillas: Ibid.; W. J. Hughes, Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old

Southwest (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma-Press, 1964), pp. 223-38.

5 battle outside of Vera Cruz: Greer, pp. 170-71.

5 other skirmishes and battles: Ibid., pp. 171-210.

6 Hays's reputation: Elizabeth Howard West, "Hays, John Coffee," in Dictionary of American

Biography, Vol. IV, ed. by Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone (New York: Scribner's,

1932), page 463.