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With just over a hundred Texas Rangers to cover a state with 267,399 square miles, any one may become the one Ranger who, like Joaquin Jackson in Zavala County in 1972, stops one riot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49568038289681,"sku":"GOR005822419","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49676409798929,"sku":"CIN0292716389G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49950678876433,"sku":"CIN0292716389VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50060239700241,"sku":"CIN0292716389A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53105091805457,"sku":"GOR008764950","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0292716389.jpg?v=1750781094"},{"product_id":"one-ranger-returns-book-h-joaquin-jackson-9780292716261","title":"One Ranger Returns","description":"No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger. 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