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To: WestTexasWend

Sounds like the TEXAS Rangers had better put thier Special Force back on duty.

From http://www.lsjunction.com/facts/rangers.htm

In 1874, the Texas legislature sought to restore order by forming two groups of Rangers: the Special Force of Rangers and the Frontier Battalion. Under Captain Leander H. McNelly, the Special Force of Rangers moved into the Nueces Strip (between Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande) to combat lawlessness in that region.

Meanwhile, the Frontier Battalion, a force of some 450 Rangers under Major John B. Jones, participated in over fifteen Indian battles, and effectively neutralized the once powerful Commanches and Kiowas.

But perhaps more importantly, this group also "thinned out" more than 3,000 Texas desperados including bank robber Sam Bass and notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin.


4 posted on 11/30/2006 9:44:21 AM PST by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: ASOC

I think we need the Frontier Battalion reconstituted. I think it's long past time for "thinning out" the badmen who run the border.


5 posted on 11/30/2006 10:13:01 AM PST by Jack Black
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