The Texas Rangers with Frank Hamer featured-selections

The Texas Rangers with Frank Hamer featured-selectionsThe Texas Rangers were founded in 1823 fourteen years before Texas' independence from Mexico was even declared. Their skill soon won them recognition as the most efficient and least expensive way to protect the Texas frontier, thin out desperados, bring in cattle rustlers and bootleggers and restore order in boom towns. Their traditions, toughness, and esprit de corps quickly won the Rangers worldwide fame and continuing respect. Frank Hamer, the man

Its design draws from the rugged Pine Tree flag

the center of which bears the inscription: "Vast land with saline soil almost without vegetation

years before Texas declared independence from Mexico and became an Independent and Sovereign Republic

The Texas and Pacific acquired the railroad in 1929

the Texas Legislature appropriated 3

Their US maps were some of the first to prominently exhibit railroad lines

Though the modern-day version has replaced the old streetcar

or the Emigrant’s Farmer’s and Politician’s Guide

and the route was changed many times

essays on many subjects

From Spindletop sprang two giants of the modern industry

and in keeping with the rising prominence of Texas