OTD calendar February

 #OTD on February 13, 1919, the final 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.   Todays’ thread summarizes both this day’s testimony, and […]

#OTD in 1896, Texas governor Charles Culberson sent Texas Rangers to El Paso to prevent the Peter Maher-Bob Fitzsimmons prizefight for violating the state’s anti-prizefighting legislation. Their failure to do so shows how entrepreneurs could use the border to defy the law. The Rangers were met with hostile resistance from the city’s residents, mayor, and