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Rise of Bill Jess McDonald from Mississippi youth to Texas regulator
The biography recounts William Jesse McDonald born September 28 182? a Mississippi planter's son who grows amid slave plantations and frontier hunting. After the Civil War he relocates to East Texas Mineola and builds a grocer business, befriends James S Hogg, los es ties with him over concealed weapons, becomes a deputy and enforcer of law in Wood County, Mineola, defending townsfolk from disorder with a fearless, rapid response style.
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