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A Killer Bullets Couldn’t Stop

by | Mar 1, 2021 | Features & Gunfights

While fighting for the citizens they swore to protect, two horseback-era Texas Rangers were cut down by a deadly killer. Maybe in the flag-waving fervor following America’s April 2, 1917, entry in the Great War, 56-year-old Ben Pennington saw joining the Texas Rangers as a patriotic act. Too old for the military, Pennington per- haps thought he could help guard the border from Mexican bandits or German spies and saboteurs. If he could not take on the Huns himself, he could take p


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