#OTD on January 1st, 1958, the University of Texas Press published Américo Paredes’ landmark book With His Pistol in His Hand, an examination of the life and legend of Gregorio

#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

  #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

#OTD on January 15, 1879, Rangers under the command of G.W. Arrington attacked a group of Kiowa and Comanche hunters in the panhandle, killing and scalping their leader, “Sunboy.” The

  #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

#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

#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

#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

Editor’s Note (January 2026): Some links in this post have been updated or removed since original publication. The Texas Ranger Museum has significantly reorganized their website and eliminated or altered

#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

#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”)

#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”)