Texas Ranger Jim Gillett writes himself into fame.   Round Rock Remembrance James B. Gillett with his hand on the grave marker of outlaw Sam Bass, at the Round Rock, Texas, cemetery. Gillett and a company of Rangers were sent to Round Rock in 1878 to head off a robbery by the Bass Gang. But they got there after the lawmen and robbers’ fight was finished. Gillett, however, was among the officers who found the mortally wound


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