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  Handbook of Texas Online:
The inhabitants of Ranger Camp Valley moved to the railway and established the permanent town of Ranger.
Between 1889 and 1904 Ranger grew from a town of 350 with two doctors to 750 with five doctors, a bank, a high school, and a women's literary club.
In 1982 the chamber of commerce established the Roaring Ranger Museum to depict the history of the oil boom and the community.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/hgr1.html   (962 words)

  
 Texas Department of Public Safety - Courtesy, Service, Protection
Rangers are required to attend at least 40 hours of in-service training every two years, but for most Rangers, the training far exceeds the requirement.
Texas was growing up--the Rangers were part of the state's civil authority, and had to learn to do their work within the framework of the law, no matter the necessary liberties some of their predecessors had taken in earlier years.
Rangers made national headlines by their quiet but firm presence at various campuses in the state as school integration was for the most part peacefully implemented.
www.txdps.state.tx.us /director_staff/texas_rangers   (0 words)

  
  The Lone Ranger - Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers, the oldest law enforcement body on the North American Continent with statewide jurisdiction, which are recognized throughout the world for their accomplishments.
The Texas Ranger organization became better established during the period of the Republic of Texas, 1836 to 1846, but the Rangers were not without criticism and underwent movements of abolishment.
Rangers were able to survive because the organization was structured in a less expensive manner than that of a regular army.
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  AllRefer.com - Texas Rangers (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
In the Reconstruction era the Texas Rangers were engaged to control outlaws, feuding groups, and Mexican marauders and were responsible for keeping law and order along the Rio Grande.
In 1874 the Texas Rangers were organized for the first time on a permanent basis in two battalions; one was assigned to arbitrate range wars on the frontier, and the other was sent to control cattle rustling on the Texas-Mexico border.
By act (1935) of the Texas legislature, the rangers were merged with the state highway patrol under the jurisdiction of the state department of public safety.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/TexasRan.html   (438 words)

  
 Texas Almanac 2006-2007 | TexasAlmanac.com | History
New Rangers – as were their early-day counterparts – are still expected to be good shots, but they receive additional training in fingerprint-recovery technique, photography, blood-splatter interpretation, investigative hypnosis, and numerous other skills aimed at assisting them in handling criminal investigations.
Rangers assisted the FBI during the Feb. 28-April 19, 1993, Branch Davidian stand-off at Mt. Carmel, 10 miles east of Waco in McLennan County.
Following hours of negotiations with Rangers and FBI agents, the three suspects released their two hostages and retreated up a winding mountain road to the "Embassy" of the so-called "Republic of Texas." During the seven-day Republic of Texas stand-off in Jeff Davis County, Rangers scouted the area in helicopters and on horseback.
www.texasalmanac.com /history/highlights/rangers   (5122 words)

  
 Guide to a Career as a Texas Ranger - Associated Content
The third Texas Ranger duty is to investigate major crimes, which might fall under multiple categories, and the final duty is to apprehend fugitives who have fled justice.
The Texas Rangers may be required to work with other investigative agencies, such as the FBI, Interpol and police departments, though they are typically assigned cases which are their responsibility.
One of the hallmarks of the Texas Rangers is the size of the organization.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/74020/guide_to_a_career_as_a_texas_ranger.html   (529 words)

  
 Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum Store
In 1878, the State of Texas published A List of Fugitives From Justice, which was distributed to Ranger companies.
The City of Waco (ci.waco.tx.us) operates the Hall of Fame and Museum in partnership with the State of Texas.
The Hall of Fame and Museum complex is located adjacent to Interstate 35 in Waco, Texas (midway between Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin).
www.texasranger.org /store/store.htm   (0 words)

  
 Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum, Waco, Texas
The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, the official State Hall of Fame for the Texas Rangers Law Enforcement Agency, is conveniently located off I-35 near downtown Waco.
The Texas Rangers, the oldest state law enforcement agency, play an important role in solving crimes and apprehending fugitives.
The Modern Texas Rangers focus primarily on investigations, and are known as the Elite Law Enforcement Officers of the 21st Century.
www.wacocvb.com /waco-ranger-museum.html   (354 words)

  
 Texas Treasures - Rangers and Outlaws - Texas State Library
Texas Rangers under Capt. Jack Hays were the first to use the five-shot Colt revolver (Paterson model), proving its worth against the Comanche at the Battle of Walker Creek.
In 1918, Texas state representative José T. Canales of Brownsville launched an investigation into the conduct of the Texas Rangers during the border wars and filed nineteen charges of misconduct against the Rangers.
As a result of the investigation, the Loyalty Rangers were abolished, and the Texas Rangers were reduced in force.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /treasures/law/index.html   (1154 words)

  
 Texas Rangers on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In their first decade of operation, the rangers effectively quelled lawlessness in Texas on frequent occasions, and in the Mexican War (1846-48) they served as scouts and guerrilla fighters, gaining a wide reputation for valor and effectiveness.
The Rangers defeated the Astros, 18-3, at Ameriq
The Orioles defeated the Rangers, 7-3, at Or
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TexasR1an.asp   (1180 words)

  
 Ranger and Outlaws at Six Flags
The Six Flags Rangers and Outlaw Show is a sort of tribute to the Texas Rangers, the oldest law enforcement agency in North America.
When one hears the name Texas Ranger, one does not always know for sure if the subject is baseball, a TV show, or law enforcement.
The control of the Rangers was placed under the command of the military Commander-in-Chief of the forces of Texas.
durangotexas.com /eyesontexas/sixflags/loneranger.htm   (835 words)

  
 KFFL - Texas Rangers News and Notes
Texas Rangers 3B Hank Blalock (shoulder) sat out the team's game Thursday, May 17, according to the Associated Press' Fred Goodall.
T.R. Sullivan, of Rangers.MLB.com, reports Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels has kept a close eye on the trade market, and may be willing to make a big move to jumpstart his team.
T.R. Sullivan, of Rangers.MLB.com, reports Texas Rangers OF Kevin Mahar was shocked when he was called up to the majors because of his limited time spent in Triple-A Oklahoma.
www.kffl.com /team/69/mlb   (665 words)

  
 Civil War
This command was succeeded by an organization first known as the Frontier Regiment organized as State troops in 1862, and afterwards known as the 36th Texas Cavalry in the Confederate service.
The number of troops furnished by the State of Texas to the Confederate Army included 45 regiments of cavalry, 23 regiments of infantry, 12 battalions of cavalry, four battalions of infantry, one regiment of heavy artillery and 30 batteries of light artillery, which passed beyond the control of the State authorities.
The days of the Civil War in Texas were ones of confusion and struggle, filled with the ever present problem of keeping the ranks of the army filled with fighting men.
www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/tnghist10.htm   (961 words)

  
 "Walker, Texas Ranger" (1993)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walker, a martial artist, and his partner Trivette are Texas Rangers.
Ranger Cordell Walker: Now, be careful with the tuxedos.
Clarence Gilyard --- from being a Private Investigator to a Texas Ranger
www.imdb.com /title/tt0106168   (555 words)

  
 Texas Rangers Tickets - nwtix.com/Texas Rangers Tickets - Buys/Sells Texas Rangers Ticket
There will be much to think about as the Rangers try to figure out their designated hitter and who will be on their bench when the 2007 season starts.
The buzzwords for the Rangers' catching situation in 2005 are depth, depth and depth.
Texas Rangers Ticket deliveries are guaranteed no later than the day before the event unless stated otherwise, however every effort will be made to deliver Texas Rangers tickets as early as possible.
www.nwtix.com /Texas_Rangers_Tickets.html   (1314 words)

  
 Texas Fast Facts and Trivia
Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it.
Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation.
Texas is home to Dell and Compaq computers and central Texas is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of the south.
www.50states.com /facts/texas.htm   (959 words)

  
 Texas Rangers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Rangers were originally in Washington as the expansion Senators from 1961 to 1971.
The first major league team in Texas were the Houston Colt.45s, who joined the National League in 1962 and later changed their nickname to the Astros.
Ted Williams was the first manager of the Texas Rangers and the last manager of the Washington Senators.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /teams/AL/rangers.htm   (329 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Texas Rangers Clubhouse
Saturday's starter, John Koronka, was the first left-hander to start for the Rangers this season, leaving Boston as the only team in the majors without a start by a left-hander this season.
Texas Rangers third baseman Hank Blalock, who has had shoulder discomfort in recent days, will have surgery to remove a rib Monday and could be out up to three months.
Texas Rangers' Nelson Cruz sits at second base after being caught trying to steal for the third out in the sixth...
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/clubhouse?team=tex   (417 words)

  
 The Texas Dukes School of Baseball   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ranger Junior College (Ranger, Texas) and the Texas Dukes Baseball Organization are proud to announce that Lake Highlands High School and Texas Dukes senior, Andy Pendleton has signed a letter of intent to play baseball for Ranger Junior College beginning in fall 2006.
Ranger Junior College (Ranger, Texas) and the Texas Dukes Baseball Organization are proud to announce that Little Elm High School and Texas Dukes senior, Ryan Spinney has signed a letter of intent to play baseball for Howard College beginning in fall 2006.
Ranger Junior College (Ranger, Texas) and the Texas Dukes Baseball Organization are proud to announce that Shelton School and Texas Dukes senior, Clay Hollingsworth has signed a letter of intent to play baseball for Ranger Junior College beginning in fall 2006.
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 Texas Rangers
The Rangers date back to 1823 when Stephen F. Austin recognized the need for a body of men to protect his fledgling colony.
By 1835, as the movement for Texas independence was about to boil over, a council of local government representatives created a "Corps of Rangers" to protect the frontier from Indians.
After independence, the debt-ridden government of the Republic of Texas soon found that ranger companies were the least expensive way to protect the frontier from Indians and the threat of Mexican attacks into the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
www.lsjunction.com /facts/rangers.htm   (732 words)

  
 Texas Rangers
With their new young players, the Rangers have developed a dynamic offense, but unless they solve their chronic inability to assemble a quality pitching staff, their fans will continue to wait for the team's first World Series appearance.
On April 2, 1998, the Texas Rangers set a team record for hits during a game with twenty-three (23) versus the Chicago White Sox.
The Texas Rangers set a team record for runs scored during an inning on April 19, 1996, with sixteen (16) in the eighth (8th) inning versus the Baltimore Orioles.
www.baseball-almanac.com /teams/rang.shtml   (1210 words)

  
 texas
Texas caused one astonished recruit to write the he had joined "a regiment of devils." Although Moore won a battlefield promotion to brigadier general during the Battle of Shiloh, the Confederate Congress never confirmed his appointment.
Texas Cavalry Regiment, "As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the 3
Parson's Texas Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War was comprised of the 12th Texas, the 19th Texas, the 21st Texas and Morgan's 13th Texas Cavalry Regiments and served in the Western Theater fighting in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana.
www.mosocco.com /texas.html   (2672 words)

  
 Jackson, One Ranger, University of Texas Press
In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what it was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993.
Jackson's tenure in the Texas Rangers began when older Rangers still believed that law need not get in the way of maintaining order, and concluded as younger Rangers were turning to computer technology to help solve crimes.
There was only one story that belonged to me," his story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/jacone.html   (686 words)

  
 The Texas Rangers: They Rode for the Lone Star
A drawing of a "ranging party," the Texian-Mexican Colonial period forerunners of the the Texas Rangers, mustering for a scouting patrol on the frontier.
The eastern press often shared this opinion and presented the Rangers as caricatures in cartoons and drawings--mistakenly so, since many of the Rangers were educated men, doctors, attorneys, surveyors and writers in their civilian careers.
The Rangers, men born to excel at frontier combat, lived off the land, literally "rustled" up mules and supplies for the Army, terrorized and defeated the Mexican regulars and guerrillas at every turn, and generally outshone Taylor's troops.
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 Ralph Wranker
The Ranger story begins in 1823, the Father of Texas, Stephen F. Austin realized the need for a body of men to protect his colony, and the land settlement effort that marked the beginning of Texas’ development.
The Texas Rangers were officially established in 1835, while Texas was in the midst of revolution against Mexico.
The Texas Rangers remained an independent law enforcement agency until 1935, when they became part of a newer and larger law enforcement agency, the Texas Department of Public Safety.
www.taliesyn.com /ralph/rangers.htm   (1050 words)

  
 The Texas Rangers (no, not the base-ball team)
The Texas Rangers originated in the 1820/s as a volunteer corps to prevent Native American Indian attacks.
In 1835, the year before the Republic of Texas was born, the rangers became an official, full-time corps that was paid to defend the frontier.
Features a replica of the original Texas Ranger Fort which was established in 1837.
www.lnstar.com /mall/texasinfo/txrangers.htm   (225 words)

  
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