#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 revived the character of Walker from the 1990s show starring Chuck Norris as a Ranger. The original show was inspired by Norris’ role in the […]
#OTD on January 23, 2016, the Bullock Museum opened the bilingual exhibit “Life and Death on the Border.” It offered an unflinching look at the role of the TexasRangers in the 1910s border violence. This was an important moment in Texas Ranger history because it was the first time a state public history institution recounted
#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 the history of the Ranger Force. Porvenir was a small and remote, but proudly independent community. Mexican-descent families raised livestock, grew produce and cotton, irrigated
#OTD in 1881, 21 Texas Rangers raided an Apache gathering in the early morning, where men, women and children were having breakfast near the Sierra Diablo mountain range. Lead by George W. Baylor, the Rangers killed 6 people that day and Baylor wrote in an official report: “[I] don’t think [the Indians] will sit
#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”) took place in the Railroad Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd floor of the state capitol. Canales’ walk to the hearings was literally shadowed by
#OTD on January 31, 1919, the second day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Railroad Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd floor of the state capitol. Canales’ walk to the hearings was literally shadowed by
#OTD on February 1, 1919, the third day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the state capitol. This day of hearings was different than the others. No testimony, but rather the filing of five more
In early February 1918, Special Rangers A.B. Hodges and Graham Myers detailed Thomas A. Johnson, a Black man who worked for a San Angelo dry goods store, on suspicion of stealing from a recent railroad shipment. Johnson insisted he had nothing do to with the missing items, but Hodges and Myers took him into custody
#OTD on February 4, 1919, the fifth day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. On this day, evidence documenting some of the worse state violence, including the Porvenir Massacre, was introduced in
#OTD on February 5, 1919, the sixth day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. On this day, more evidence documenting Ranger violence against both ethnic Mexicans and Anglos was introduced in testimony,
