On April 3rd, 1883, the citizens of Tombstone declared they had no faith in the Army’s ability to contain the Apache. Putting their faith in a...
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A Tale of the Tucson Rangers
Fighting wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. The enthusiasm to be civilian Indian militia usually evaporated about the same time as the whiskey they...
On Patrol
Five Texas Rangers of Company A, (l.-r) Howard Cragg, Ira Heard, Sam Chessir, J. B. Brooks and Lloyd David, were mounted and ready for action at the...
Cattle Queens, Dragoons and Rangers
How were Old West hotel rooms heated? Carolyn Childs (Houston, Texas) Fires were a menace to those wood structures; they could wipe out an entire...
Sherman McMaster: Good Guy or Bad?
Sherm McMaster was one of the more interesting characters in the Cochise County War. He was born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1853. Not much is known...
Birth of a Writer
Samuel Langhorne Clemens' journey West began in 1861 when he was 25. He’d spent the previous two and one-half years piloting Mississippi steamboats...
Rangers and Ranger Wannabes
Rangers have always occupied a special place in American history. During the Seven Years War or French and Indian War. In 1755 Captain Robert Rogers...
Birth of the Arizona Rangers
Arizona greeted the 20th Century as a frontier Jekyll and Hyde. On one hand, communities like Phoenix, Prescott and Tucson were becoming modern...
The Battle of Plum Creek
TEXAS AUGUST 1840 Under the Comanche moon of August 1840, 400 to 1000 warriors under Buffalo Hump cut a swath of destruction on a vengeance ride...
Tracking the Texas Rangers
FOLLOW THE HISTORIC TRAILS OF THE LONE STAR LAWMAN THROUGH WEST TEXAS FROM SAN ANGELO TO EL PASO. “They are having a lively time in Tom Green...
The Tombstone Rangers Ride Again
In April 1883, almost two years after the Tombstone Rangers hapless trek into Apacheria, the citizens, goaded by the local press again...
La Frontiera
From the settlement of Texas to the Mexican Revolution, The Texas Rangers were the most respected—and feared—law enforcers in Lone Star State history.