Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901 (Frances B. Vick Series)

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The Texas Rangers were institutionally birthed in 1874 with the formation of the Frontier Battalion. They were tasked with interdicting Indian incursions into the frontier settlements and dealing with the lawlessness running rampant all the way through Texas. So to put a human face at the rangers, Bob Alexander tells the story of some of the six companies of the Frontier Battalion, Company D. 

 
 Readers follow the rangers of Company D as—through the years—it transforms from a unit of adventurous boys into a somewhat well-oiled law enforcement machine staffed by career-oriented lawmen. Beginning with their start as Indian fighters against the Comanches and Kiowas, Alexander explores the history of Company D as they rounded up a large number of Texas outlaws and cattle thieves, engaged in border skirmishes along the Rio Grande, and participated in notable episodes such as the fence cutter wars. 
 
Winchester Warriors is an evenhanded and impartial assessment of Company D and its colorful cadre of Texas Rangers. Their laudable deeds are explored in detail, but by the same token their shameful misadventures don’t seem to be whitewashed. These Texas Rangers were simply people, good and bad—and on occasion indifferent. This new study, extensively researched in both number one and secondary sources, will appeal to scholars and aficionados of the Texas Rangers and western history.
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