Alexander should be praised for his balanced treatment of Outlaw as a good-bad Ranger.”- Harold J. He has put together a well-researched biography of one of the more controversial Texas Rangers, Bazzell Lamar ‘Baz’ Outlaw. “Bob Alexander has become a noted Wild West writer and a devotee of outlaw-lawmen history.
The dry accounting of chases and arrests is turned into an adventure that leaves the reader wanting more.”- Paul N. He can take the otherwise bland Ranger Monthly Reports and turn them into a tale, without betraying the actual facts of the circumstances. “Can someone write nonfiction, make it sound like Zane Grey’s fiction, and get away with it? Well, Bob Alexander can. Baz met his end in a brothel brawl at the hands of John Selman, the same gunfighter who killed John Wesley Hardin. Baz Outlaw’s tale is complete with horseback chases, explosive train robberies, vigilante justice (or injustice), nighttime ambushes and bushwhacking, and episodes of scorching six-shooter finality. Baz Outlaw’s true-life story is jam-packed with fellows owning well-known names, including Texas Rangers, city marshals, sheriffs, and steely-eyed mean-spirited miscreants. Although Baz Outlaw’s badge-wearing career was sometimes heroically creditable, at other times his self-induced nightmarish imbroglios teased and tested Texas Ranger management’s resoluteness.
He could be a fearless and crackerjack lawman, as well as an unmanageable manic. In his career Baz Outlaw wore a badge as a Texas Ranger and also as a Deputy US Marshal.
WHISKEY RIVER NORTH FULL
In Whiskey River Ranger, Bob Alexander tells for the first time the full story of this troubled Texas Ranger and his losing battle with alcoholism. Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company’s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854–1894), “A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men.” Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw “was one of the worst and most dangerous” because “he never knew what fear was.” But not all thought so highly of him.
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