January

Dove Creek Clash

#OTD on January 8, 1865, Texas Confederate militiamen, including Texas Ranger captain N. M. Gillentine, attacked a large group of Kickapoo Indians camped on a tributary of the Conchos river

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Ferguson Expands Rangers

  #OTD on January 10, 1915, Governor James “Pa” Ferguson began expanding the number of Texas Rangers as a response to “bandit incursions” at the Texas-Mexico border. At the start

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Canales Files Bill

  #OTD on January 15, 1919, State Representative José Tomás Canales, representing the Rio Grande Valley, along the border with Mexico, filed House Bill 5, calling a reform of the

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Bragg Williams Lynching

#OTD on January 20, 1919, a white mob in Hillsboro, Texas, removed Bragg Williams from the county jail and burned him at the stake at the intersection of Elm and

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Walker Texas Ranger Premier

#0TD, on January 21st, 2021, a reboot of Walker Texas Ranger premiered on the CW, available to be streamed all over the United States, now just titled Walker.  The series

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Bullock Exhibit Opens

#OTD on January 23, 2016, @BullockMuseum opened the bilingual exhibit “Life and Death on the Border.”  It offered an unflinching look at the role of the TexasRangers in the 1910s

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Porvenir Massacre

#OTD on January 28, 1918, Texas Rangers massacred fifteen men and boys at the village of Porvenir, Texas, in what is perhaps the single most notorious and consequential event in

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Baylor’s Raid on Apache Camp

#OTD in 1881, 21 Texas Rangers raided an Apache gathering in the early morning, where men,women and children were having breakfastnear the Sierra Diablo mountain range.   Lead by George

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Canales Hearings Begin

#OTD on January 30, 1919, the first day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”)

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