The Texas Rangers are arguably the most famous law enforcement agency in U.S. history, and they certainly made their mark in the Old West. It took special men to put on a Ranger badge—“men of fiber,” as historian J. Evetts Haley put it. The job was tough, sometimes boring, occasionally dangerous.  It tested men to the utmost.  Yet, sadly, many of the Rangers of old have been nearly forgotten by history. One of them is Phillip Cuney “P.C.” Baird, who during his time came to be know


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