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May 25, 2015. (2015-05-25) 4.08 [9] The day after the brutal defeat and executions at The Alamo on March 7, 1836, lone survivors, Emily D. West and Susana Dickenson journey to Texas Republic Army camp in Gonzalez with the help of the newly named Texas Rangers who battle Karankawa Indians along the way. Meanwhile, at the outpost, the Texas ...
Captain L. H. McNelly, Texas Ranger: The Life and Times of a Fighting Man, State House Press (2000). ISBN 978-1-880510-73-5. Robinson, Charles. The Men Who Wear the Star: The Story of the Texas Rangers, Modern Library, (2001). ISBN 978-0-375-75748-8; Swanson, Doug, J. Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers. Viking Press ...
Dimensions. 3.7 m (12 ft) Location. Dallas, Texas, U.S. One Riot, One Ranger is a bronze statue of a Texas Ranger, installed from 1961 to 2020 at Dallas Love Field, named for the famous story of Bill McDonald, a captain of Ranger Company B, in the 1900s who by himself broke up an illegal boxing match in the U.S. state of Texas.
The Canales Investigation was a 1919 legislative hearing into criminal conduct of the Texas Rangers, named for Texas State Representative José Tomás (J.T.) Canales. The purpose of the hearing was to "investigate the activities and necessity for a continuance of the force." [1]: 435 The investigations surfaced several allegations of wrongdoing ...
Douglas Jules Swanson, a native of Florida, [6] was born in 1953. He graduated from University of Texas in 1977 and spent a year as the John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. [citation needed] He worked as a journalist for 35 years at the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News. Until Cult of Glory, he was best known for ...
John Reynolds Hughes (February 11, 1855 – June 3, 1947) was a Texas Ranger and cowboy of the Old West, and later an author. Several books were written about him, known as one of the most influential Texas Rangers of all time. He was said to have inspired the fictional Lone Ranger character prominent in Western stories of the 20th century ...
Expert marksman [6] Above-average athlete, horseman, hand-to-hand combatant, and master of disguise. The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture.
Paxton being raised above the crowd as a child as President Kennedy emerges from the Hotel Texas before his assassination in November 1963. Paxton [1] was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 17, 1955, the son of Mary Lou (née Gray; 1926–2016) and John Lane Paxton (1920–2011). [2] His mother was a Catholic who raised him and his siblings in ...