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Fame of Texas Ranger Based On Fact 99 Per Cent of Time
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AUSTIN. Tex. (UPI) - "We
had a little shooting match, and
they lost."
Times have changed since this
to the - point report was turned
in many years ago by a Texas
Ranger assigned to clean out a
gang of cattle rustlers.
But the Texas Ranger of to
day, as a member of one of the
world's most famous law en
forcement bodies, is very much
akin to his predecessor.
He's still over six feet tall,
wears the traditional white
Stetson hat and cowboy boots,
says very little and acts a lot
when the chips are down.
The 62-man ranger squad is
headed by Col. Homer Garrison,
who is celebrating his 25th anni
versary as chief ranger. Garri
son also is director of the slate i
highway patrol and its entire
public safety division.
Texas Ranger historv is rich
with lore and tradition, and 99
per cent of it is based on fact.
Garrison's favorite ranger sto
ry is about the 1955 riot at the
Rusk State hospital for the crim
inally insane. Sixteen inmates
were holed up and were threat
ening to kill anyone who came
near them.
Garrison dispatched a single
ranger, Capt. Bob Crnwder of
Dallas, to the scene. Five min-
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utes after his arrival the riot
was over. Asked what he said
to them, Crowder answered. "I
just told them to cut out this
stuff."
Garrison also relates and
believes the story of a single
ranger who was sent to an east
Texas town to prevent a lynch
ing about the turn of the can
tury. When he stepped off the train,
leading citizens of the town de
manded to know where his men
were.
"There's only one mob, isn't
there," replied the ranger.
"There's an unwritten code in
the rangers," Garrison said.
"You don't bark out of situa
t i o n s. If you do, you're
through."
About 18 months ago Garri
son fired one ranger who let
himself get kidnaped by a bank
robber.
Today's Texas Ranger is an
expert on modern scientific
crime detection but he si ill must
be able to travel the cactus
studded horderlancis on horse
back for days. He's still a lough
hombre whose very physical
presence is a potent for .c for
law and order.
Ranger historv dtt 's baik to
1823 when Stephen F. Austin,
considered the father of Texas,
got together a group he called
"Rangers" to protect the fron
tier settlers from hostile Indi
ans. The group was organized for
mally during Texas' War of In
dependence against Mexico in
1838, while Sam Houston's tat
tered army was waging war
with the Mexicans, a relative
handful of rangers fought the
Indians to a near standstill.
After Texas won her independ
ence, and later, when she joined
the Union in 1842, the rangers
found themselves wedged war
ring on two fronts against
Mexican bandits and rampaging
Indian hands.
1 During the Mexican war, the
rangers were called on by the
U.S. Army to lead the invading
forces and scout for them. A
member of the staff of Gen.
Zachary Taylor said the rangers
"are not only the eyes and ears
of Gen. Taylor's army, hut its
right and left arms as well."
The Mexicans called the ran
gers "Los Diahlos Tejanos"
Ihe lexas Devils.
I Texas Rangers have never
; known military discipline;
j maintaining instead a sort of
I derring do independence. Dur
ing the early years they never
j accepted a man as a leader un
less he was Ihe best of the
! group.
I Their battles with Ihe Indians
ended on Jan. 29, 1881, when
rangers surprised a band of
renegade Indians in the Diablo
mountains of the Big Bend coun
try and wiped them out.
In 1878, rangers ended the
short but violent train robbing
career of Sam Bass when they
set up a trap into which he
walked while "casing" a bank
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' Mfivrtl In Mexico
In 18 a group was trying to
promote a championship fight
at El Paso But fighting was
illegal in Texas at that time,
land Capt. Bill McDonald was
sent to prevent the bout from
taking place.
J The fight was moved to Mex
ico across the border from Lang
I try. Tex., where Judge Roy
I Bean held forth.
Bat Mastcrson, the f a m i d
I gunman from New Mex'co, be
j came impatient for the fight to
I start and began to abuse a Chi
j nese waiter in the town's only
saloon.
"Don't do that," snapped
; Ranger McDonald.
"Maybe you'd like to take it
, up," Maslerson threatened.
"I done took it up," McDon
! aid replied crisply. Masterson
I shut up and another ranger leg
end began.
Texas Rangers played promi
nent roles in the bawdy and
rowdy oil boom days, during
prohibition and in border smuc-
I gling for many years.
ihe rangers did battle witli
Chicago - type thugs during tha
1920s and 1930s. Their exploits
included the pursuit and death
of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker.
Today's ranger still with po
lice authority anywhere in tha
states believes in the creed
"Hold your fire until -you're cer
tain that your aim is true and
then let go."
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