Members of Company B, Texas Rangers, Frontier Battalion preferred the Colt Single Action Army, but also relied on various models of Winchester lever-actions. This year, the Texas Rangers ...

Photograph shows studio portrait of members of Texas Rangers Company F, Frontier Battalion. Each is armed with weapons. Circa 1884. (UTSA Special Digital Collections) Photograph shows four ...

The Texas Rangers, both past and present are real ... then directed those Rangers to deal with the lawless. The Frontier Battalion under the command of Major John B. Jones and the Special Forces ...

The Texas Rangers, an elite state law-enforcement agency ... It derives its name from its original mission of "ranging" across the frontier to protect settlers. The organization traces its roots ...

The Goliad County Historical Commission is hosting a free presentation on the history of the Texas Rangers at 1 p.m. Saturday. A social hour, starting at 1 p.m., will be followed by a presentation ...

As a result, in 1891, he was named captain of the Texas Rangers Frontier Battalion, where he and his fellow Rangers worked to protect citizens from further raids and to act as the police for ...

This article is part of Texas Monthly’s special fiftieth-anniversary issue. Read about the other icons that have defined Texas since 1973. For much of our state’s history, the Texas Rangers ...

Bestseller Clavin (coauthor, The Last Hill) sketches in this scrupulous if meandering history the origin story of the Texas Rangers. Beginning in 1821, when Anglo settlers “thought it a good ...