Mike Cox

MIKE COX is the author of more than 30 nonfiction books, including Time of the Rangers and The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900.

Cox received the A.C. Greene Award for lifetime achievement in 2011 and was a 2014 Will Rogers Medal winner and Spur Award finalist. An elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 1993, he spent more than fifteen years as spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety before serving as Communications Manager for the Texas Department of Transportation until his retirement in 2007.

When he’s not writing, Cox draws on a career rooted in Texas public service and a third-generation background in journalism, experience that shapes his deep engagement with Texas history.

Mike lives in Wimberley, Texas.

Mike Cox’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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