Search Results for: Texas Rangers
A TOWN TREED
Hunters are known to tree a mountain lion or a bear now and then, but in 1859, a gang of thugs treed a whole town. That’s right, a whole town. It was the mid 1800’s. Anglos from other parts of the United States were coming to Texas in groves, and taking over land previously owned […]
Back in 1835 there was an area of North America that, like the United States some fifty plus years earlier wanted to become independent of their mother country. On October 17, the people of that rebelling area approved the forming of a group of armed and mounted men whose duty was to range the borders […]
JOHN WESLEY HARDIN ARRESTED
August 23, 1877 climaxed probably the most dramatic manhunt in the Old West. Although John Wesley Hardin had killed a number of men, on May 26, 1874 Harden Killed Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb in Texas and killing a lawman couldn’t be overlooked. For three years Hardin was able to elude the Texas Rangers by using […]
CYNTHIA ANN PARKER
On this date back in 1836 one of the Old West’s most tragic events began to unfold. At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker’s family was killed and she, along with some other children, was kidnapped. The Comanche took her, and she lived with them for 25 years. She became the wife of Peta […]
John Wesley Hardin Kills Sheriff
August 23, 1877 climaxed probably the most dramatic manhunt in the Old West. Although John Wesley Hardin had killed a number of men, on May 26, 1874 Hardin kills Sheriff Charles Webb in Texas and killing a lawman couldn’t be overlooked. Hardin was told that Webb wanted to kill him and capture his friend Jim […]
