Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest, a returning guest. His name is Mike Cox. C.O.X is his last name. Last time he was on the show, we talked about a two-part book. The first part of the book was titled, The Texas Rangers wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821 to 1900. So you can go back and listen to that in my archives.

And that's the first part. The second part of that book is the Texas Rangers wearing

time of the Rangers, the Texas Rangers, 1900 to present. So the first part, again, is our

earlier interview. But today we're going to talk

about a really fascinating book. Part of history that I didn't know, I lived in Texas, Dallas for a while.

So I'm kind of familiar with this type of space in between Austin, Waco, and Dallas involving this.

And the title of the book we're going to talk about is Train Crash at Crush, Texas.

America's deadliest publicity stunt was published in 2019.

Mike Cox is a native Texan born in Amarilla long enough ago to be in the sophomore class of baby boomers.

He began his newspaper career at the San Angelo Standard Times in 1967,

reviewing Texas-related books. In addition to reviewing books, Mike has also written over 35

published nonfiction titles, and his bestselling and longest work is the two-volume history of

the Texas Rangers that I just mentioned. And his website is his full name with author at the end.

So it's www.M-I-K-E-C-O-X-A-U-T-H-O-R dot com.

And some of his other titles, I'm not going to go into all 35,

but some of the other ones are legends and lore of the Texas Capitol,

Texas Ranger Tales, hardwriting stories from the

Lone Star State, gunfight insights in Texas Ranger history, Time of the Rangers, which I already

mentioned, remembering Texas lawmen, and those are just a few of the many titles.

He's done very well knowledgeable about Texas history in particular.

So I'm delighted to have them back. Mike Cox,

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