Benefiting the Former Texas Rangers Foundation
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"The Frontier Battalion" Frontier Texas was a lawless place. In 1874. Governor Richard Coke recommended that Texas organize its own force to protect the frontier. The Frontier Battalion, composed of six companies of Texas Rangers with 75 men each, was created during that year. Under the leadership of Major John B. Jones, camps were established along the entire frontier line. In the first 17 months of its existence, the Frontier Battalion engaged in 21 battles with Indians. |
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Members of the Frontier Battalion arrested hundreds of lawless men including high-profile criminals like Sam Bass and John Wesley Hardin, and thousands of others fled. The men of the Battalion escorted prisoners, guarded jails and attended courts; law and justice were their saddle pals. They cleaned out the outlaws of Kimble County in 1877. The Battalion was also assigned special tasks including settling bloody feuds such as the Mason County War, the Horrell-Higgins Feud of Lampasas County and the Salt War of San Elizario. For 26 years, the Frontier Battalion brought law where it didn't exist, and tamed the dangerous, unruly place that was Texas. In the process, these steely men with their iron resolve defined forever what it means to be a Texas Ranger. |
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