@@duelist1954. I enjoy lots of your videos. I’m from across the pond, but grew up on a diet of The Lone Ranger, Westerns , etc…. However….and it’s not your fault….but having just learnt about the shocking wicked behaviour of the Texas Rangers during the “Border Bandit” era around 1915, a period of ethnic cleansing, a deep stain on US history …..I’m not going to watch this video. I now associate the Texas Rangers with the Ku Klux Klan.
I want to thank you Mike for teaching me so much about 1800's weapons. The way you explain everything is very well done. Your channel has become one of my favorite You Tube channels!! Thank you again sir!
Another KEY point regarding the evolution of the Texas Rangers was the importance of not losing their horses! Comanche were celebrated for stealing horses. On the Plains, mobility was the key to everything. If you didn’t have it, you were toast. Not until the Rangers learned to protect their horses from thievery(even during battle) did they begin to get the upper hand. Before Jack Hays the Rangers were decimated by native warriors.
Texas rangers killed innocent Texans to..them and anglo ranchers. Why is king ranch so extensive? They came across oceans to get to ' America '..so who owned the lands before they came illegally?
@@gradyhernandez4699 "Stolen lands" is relative you know that right? The Indians "stole lands" from one another REGULARLY. They REGULARLY killed, enslaved, traded, & tortured each other.
Thankyou so much, being Texas born with my family coming from German (Prussia) to Texas in 1848. I have visited the grave of William H. Brown the last man killed by Indians( 1875)in Runnels County between Ballinger and Bronte , Texas. He was a Texas Ranger , and the cemetery is in kind of disarray but the original Tombstone which is a flat River rock is still there. The cemetary is located in the settlement of Maverick. You made a great video, thankyou.It is a Texas Historical site with a marker and many unmarked graves are there as well.
@@michaelpielorz9283 It would get too costly to move it from federally recognized tribal land to federally recognized tribal land whenever someone with American Indian blood is murdered.
I once went to a gun show when I was visiting family in Long Island from Vermont and found one of these old colt firearms for sale and the guy wanted like $10k for it. It was decked out with ornately carved ivory grip handles and was still in good shooting condition with only a few small puckers in the steal but I didn’t have that kind of money on hand but ironically I had just came into position of a very rare Origional shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card printed in his second year of baseball and the value of the card was a bit more then the value the man wanted for his old colt and lucky for me his grandson was nearly in tears over the baseball card I had but the old timmer turned me down,then about an hour later he had heard enough of his grandson asking him to trade for the card and he sent him looking for me and he found me and we traded.The best part of it all was I got that baseball card from a young kid the day before at a vintage card show which was why I was in Long Island who thought his cards were reprints and I got the joe Jackson and a Ty cobb from 1913 for $42 for the both of them then traded the Jackson for the colt and kept the Ty cobb. The only issue the 1800s colt had was a slight split down one side of the ivory carved grip which I ended up getting fixed and now it just looks like a hair line rather then a parted crack. Beautiful Origional colt I’ll one day give my grand son but first I need to make a son.Sons guns and baseball cards life is good I love being American,where else can you live so free that you can turn your hobby’s into a profession if you have a good eye.Only in America can you turn $42 into 10k in 48 hours. Most people are living the American dream every day and still think they are looking for it and have yet to have it.
Very well done sir. Our forbears in Texas Rangers served with the early pre War of Northern Aggression, and later the Texas 10TH INF. Very good history!
Another issue for Walker revolvers blowing up was the often under charging of the long chambers to the point that the ball did not seat on the powder charge, thus producing an air gap between the powder column & the ball.
Hi Mike, I really enjoyed hearing about the start of the Texas Rangers and the guns they used. I will be watching for Part 2. Maybe you could do one about US Marshals in the future?
Excellent video Mike. I would advise anyone watching this video to listen to the song TEXAS RANGERS by Canadian folk singers Ian & Sylvia from 1964. It is a haunting a cupola version that will send chills down your spine and make the hair on your arms stand up. It is a hymn about the big fight with the Comanche's where all the rangers were wounded. Once you hear it, you will never forget it.
Being a Texan and having a couple of distant relatives in the Texas Rangers, one in the 1830’s and another in the 1870’s, I found this series most interesting. As an aside, the son of one of my best friends from school is currently a Ranger. We are all very proud of him.
@@steffenam it was a different time and we have no concept of what it took to survive. Comparing their actions to current morals and ideals is a fool’s game.
many thanks mate, great presentation, i am lucky enough to personally own and use a Colt Army .44 manufactured in 1862 and a Winchester 1873 manufactured in 1892... i do love building paper cartridges in the .44 for the colt and the "cowboy" range in the .44/40 with the 1873, love your videos mate, well done..
This video was incredibly well done and informative sir! Thank you very much. I must confess that since reading Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon, I have become facinated with the Texas Rangers. I am also very interested in the historical use of handguns in combat. In my uneducated mind I always imagined fighters of the old west would have sneered at anything under 45 caliber. Apparently I was mistaken...
Great job Mike! I’m looking forward to chapter 2 and encourage you to expand your lecture series to a regular monthly event. The Texas frontier offers tons of Indian wars historical fact that is fascinating. Your the man to bring to your audience.
I can see in your eyes, that you are also engaged in the history of this nation, especially that in which good men do not give up. It gives the heart hope, and yet sometimes heartaches thinking of the moral losses that followed in the late 1800's. Sometimes history is also emotional. Mike, thanks for this very informative session.
The 1860 Army revolver is still one of the most stylish and graceful handguns ever made. Owning an original is a feather in Your hat! I use open tops of the 1860 Army and love them. If Colt would have seen fit to put the Army grip on the 1873, I think the firearms industry would have stood still until the swing out cylinder was invented.
Is their eough work as a Historian outside of being a teacher or on tv historian ? I would like to do something for WWII history or become a psychologist.
you left out a very important point about the Patterson, it came with 2 cylinders and the Ranger would load one and put it in his pocket and then load the other. In a fight like the one you speak of, when the first cylinder was empty the Ranger would quickly switch cylinders and continue with the battle. After Patterson's were issued, the Comanche would say the each Rangers had as many guns as fingers.
Mike, you did a great job on this. My usual thing is to watch about half and then fall asleep, not on this video, I was wide awake the whole time. You really did do a great job. Thank You !
That 1851 definitely points the best of all those old guns I've handled, I have three. Liked it so much I bought the Navy 1872 Open Top, points just like it.
Sir, I did enjoy the video. My knoledge of the Texas Rangers is principally about the early years, and the Red River War years, so I will be looking forward to your part 2. Thank-you.
I enjoyed your video and found it to be very informative. I have distant relatives that still reside in Texas and they have ancestors that were Texas Rangers. I'm retired from law enforcement myself and enjoyed my service as a deputy sheriff and one of my assignments was in mounted patrol. So one of my childhood dreams of being a cowboy came true. We carried revolvers when i started my career and I use to keep a Colt Detective Special in a ankle holster as a back up. My primary issued weapon was a Ruger which I turned back in and used my Colt Python until I could buy a Smith and Wesson Model 19 Combat Master Piece.
The Whitney/Mississippi rifle was used the same time as they used the Colt Walker. Both guns used the same powder charge (which explains why half the Walkers exploded.)
Mike acccording to my family history John Coffee was my great-great grandfather...As a child at Hays Family reunions I remember the old folks telling tales about thaat time...too bad I did not have a cell phone back then..................
A book you may find interesting Indian Depravations in Texas By Wilbarger Originally published in 1896 about Short stories based on letters and 1st person accounts of life on the Texas frontier from survivors of Indian attacks, etc. Covers noted frontiersmen, Texas Rangers, etc It’s been reprinted many times and I got a copy from a bookstore 15 or 20 yrs ago in San Antonio. It was the first time I knew of the Council House fight in San Antonio, where Comanche Indian chiefs were invited to a peace talk that turned Into a general shootout in the streets by local citizens etc No historical marker in SA for this event!!! Hope you can get a copy
i did enjoy watching this. and just as importantly, i can tell you enjoyed making it. i see this was 2 years ago now. but the good thing for me, is i do not have to wait a week! thank you!
As a Texan who grew up reading about Rangers I couldn't be happier with this video. Rangers were kind more like Soldiers that handled warrants. If you were wanted by Rangers in the 19th Century it's akin to the US Army in 2021 sending Army Rangers to serve a dead or alive warrant on mafia or cartel. It's kinda over kill.
Being born and raised in Texas . I know the Texas ranger history well. Tough men in Tough times with the Indian wars , civil war, and reconstruction. My family had (treatise) with the Indians in the area. Not always good . I know of several altercations. The rangers knew the Hammack Ranch as a rough place for anyone. Most were outlaws when they came to Texas in my family from Tennessee! The posse didn't really want to catch up to them. More of make sure they didn't come back! 14 brothers and in-laws . They served on both sides of the Civil War! Old Texas frontier family! Mostly to mean to be around long! I'll leave it at that! It's in the Bell County area history as well as Burnet County,and Lampasas County. Coryell County! If anyone is interested in looking it up! I currently live in Oklahoma!
Thank you Sir! You are a great storyteller and know your history! You are my kind of man! Keep sharing your knowledge with anyone smart enough to listen! Thanks again friend!✌️
my great great grandfather was a ranger in 1850s - fought indians alongside his friend big foot wallace - my father inherited a colt saa he had carried in the 1870s but it was lost during ww2
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Since I am a Texan this was very good and thank you Mike for the history. Texas is truly a world in itself.
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@@duelist1954. I enjoy lots of your videos. I’m from across the pond, but grew up on a diet of The Lone Ranger, Westerns , etc….
However….and it’s not your fault….but having just learnt about the shocking wicked behaviour of the Texas Rangers during the “Border Bandit” era around 1915, a period of ethnic cleansing, a deep stain on US history …..I’m not going to watch this video. I now associate the Texas Rangers with the Ku Klux Klan.
as a Califorio "I Love" Texican history! Y'all made Mexico City their capital after you took their capitol. Why you waiting so long?
I wish my history classes in school had been as engaging and interesting as this lesson was !
I wish I had been as interested in history in school.
I got lucky I had a really great history teacher that made me want to be a teacher but instead I became a truck driver lol but I still love history
The same for grammar class would have helped also.
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Now that public schools no longer allow mention of God, but support teaching LGBT, it is great to see some true history like this.
I want to thank you Mike for teaching me so much about 1800's weapons. The way you explain everything is very well done. Your channel has become one of my favorite You Tube channels!! Thank you again sir!
Another KEY point regarding the evolution of the Texas Rangers was the importance of not losing their horses! Comanche were celebrated for stealing horses. On the Plains, mobility was the key to everything. If you didn’t have it, you were toast. Not until the Rangers learned to protect their horses from thievery(even during battle) did they begin to get the upper hand. Before Jack Hays the Rangers were decimated by native warriors.
They were on stolen lands dude .
@@gradyhernandez4699 You are correct the Comanches moved south into Texas and stole the land from the original native tribes .
@@gradyhernandez4699 Dude was not a good word in 1850 !
Texas rangers killed innocent Texans to..them and anglo ranchers. Why is king ranch so extensive? They came across oceans to get to ' America '..so who owned the lands before they came illegally?
@@gradyhernandez4699 "Stolen lands" is relative you know that right?
The Indians "stole lands" from one another REGULARLY. They REGULARLY killed, enslaved, traded, & tortured each other.
Thankyou so much, being Texas born with my family coming from German (Prussia) to Texas in 1848. I have visited the grave of William H. Brown the last man killed by Indians( 1875)in Runnels County between Ballinger and Bronte , Texas. He was a Texas Ranger , and the cemetery is in kind of disarray but the original Tombstone which is a flat River rock is still there. The cemetary is located in the settlement of Maverick. You made a great video, thankyou.It is a Texas Historical site with a marker and many unmarked graves are there as well.
А мне жаль Коренных жителей Америки..Америкосы порядочные сволочи..но воевать умели
Just one question. in Texas is there a monument for the last Indian killed in Texas ?
They were invading the Indians lands..is what history has proven (?) 😮
@@michaelpielorz9283 no, because they didn't win. Just like they didn't erect a monument to whomever they killed off to get there.
@@michaelpielorz9283 It would get too costly to move it from federally recognized tribal land to federally recognized tribal land whenever someone with American Indian blood is murdered.
I am a born TAXASEN and Luke to hear of TEXAS history. Thank you for your history lessons of the guns and TEXAS Rangers.
Thanks for this 2 part topic! "When Sam met Sam". Boy, would I have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that.
I love these little history segments that you do, keep it up!
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Absolutely love history lessons like this. Well done, Sir! Thank you!
Thank you , I love these priceless history lessons. You are now apart of that treasured history and our window to the past .
I once went to a gun show when I was visiting family in Long Island from Vermont and found one of these old colt firearms for sale and the guy wanted like $10k for it.
It was decked out with ornately carved ivory grip handles and was still in good shooting condition with only a few small puckers in the steal but I didn’t have that kind of money on hand but ironically I had just came into position of a very rare Origional shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card printed in his second year of baseball and the value of the card was a bit more then the value the man wanted for his old colt and lucky for me his grandson was nearly in tears over the baseball card I had but the old timmer turned me down,then about an hour later he had heard enough of his grandson asking him to trade for the card and he sent him looking for me and he found me and we traded.The best part of it all was I got that baseball card from a young kid the day before at a vintage card show which was why I was in Long Island who thought his cards were reprints and I got the joe Jackson and a Ty cobb from 1913 for $42 for the both of them then traded the Jackson for the colt and kept the Ty cobb.
The only issue the 1800s colt had was a slight split down one side of the ivory carved grip which I ended up getting fixed and now it just looks like a hair line rather then a parted crack.
Beautiful Origional colt I’ll one day give my grand son but first I need to make a son.Sons guns and baseball cards life is good I love being American,where else can you live so free that you can turn your hobby’s into a profession if you have a good eye.Only in America can you turn $42 into 10k in 48 hours.
Most people are living the American dream every day and still think they are looking for it and have yet to have it.
Arkansas State Police now known as State Troopers were called Rangers, from the ASP website.
Very well done sir. Our forbears in Texas Rangers served with the early pre War of Northern Aggression, and later the Texas 10TH INF. Very good history!
Extremely interesting video for an American history fan in England.
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Thanks. I truly enjoyed this video. Even at 71 years old I learned so much. You are a great teacher. Can't wait to see part 2.
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Another issue for Walker revolvers blowing up was the often under charging of the long chambers to the point that the ball did not seat on the powder charge, thus producing an air gap between the powder column & the ball.
I have always been a great fan of the Texas Rangers and this video as with your others was very informative looking forward to part 2……TY
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Love the history lesson. Very good video. Liking forward to the next one. You’re the best!
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Anyone ever read the book "Texas" by James A. Michener. It's got some interesting plot lines about the early days of the Texas rangers.
I went to the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco this summer and it’s really cool to have seen in person a lot of the firearms in this video.
Great vid, very informative, thanks Mike
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Excellent Video --- Great Grandfather carried a 1860 Army during the Civil War as one of Morgans Raiders.
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This is a subject near and dear to my heart. I look forward to hearing much more.
Hi Mike, I really enjoyed hearing about the start of the Texas Rangers and the guns they used. I will be watching for Part 2. Maybe you could do one about US Marshals in the future?
Maybe. I’ll give it some thought. Thanks for the suggestion
Great job, as always. Love the story of the "bill never paid"!
I love that story too.
Love all things Texas Ranger and every other aspect of my state's history. Well done.
Excellent video Mike. I would advise anyone watching this video to listen to the song TEXAS RANGERS by Canadian folk singers Ian & Sylvia from 1964. It is a haunting a cupola version that will send chills down your spine and make the hair on your arms stand up. It is a hymn about the big fight with the Comanche's where all the rangers were wounded. Once you hear it, you will never forget it.
Being a Texan and having a couple of distant relatives in the Texas Rangers, one in the 1830’s and another in the 1870’s, I found this series most interesting. As an aside, the son of one of my best friends from school is currently a Ranger. We are all very proud of him.
@@steffenam it was a different time and we have no concept of what it took to survive. Comparing their actions to current morals and ideals is a fool’s game.
many thanks mate, great presentation, i am lucky enough to personally own and use a Colt Army .44 manufactured in 1862 and a Winchester 1873 manufactured in 1892... i do love building paper cartridges in the .44 for the colt and the "cowboy" range in the .44/40 with the 1873, love your videos mate, well done..
Great Story! Thanks Much!
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Watched this twice if not 3 times now, I've enjoyed it every time.
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Precise, concise summation of the history of the Texas rangers and "Colt"!
Well done Sir, a fantastic video. Looking forward to part 2.
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This video was incredibly well done and informative sir! Thank you very much. I must confess that since reading Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon, I have become facinated with the Texas Rangers. I am also very interested in the historical use of handguns in combat. In my uneducated mind I always imagined fighters of the old west would have sneered at anything under 45 caliber. Apparently I was mistaken...
Man the colt Walker up to the colt army is one of my favorite style revolvers. So iconic
Great job Mike! I’m looking forward to chapter 2 and encourage you to expand your lecture series to a regular monthly event. The Texas frontier offers tons of Indian wars historical fact that is fascinating. Your the man to bring to your audience.
I appreciate your confidence in my abilities.
I can see in your eyes, that you are also engaged in the history of this nation, especially that in which good men do not give up. It gives the heart hope, and yet sometimes heartaches thinking of the moral losses that followed in the late 1800's. Sometimes history is also emotional.
Mike, thanks for this very informative session.
Sometimes I’m just a big girl…LOL
@@duelist1954 Not true at all. Sometimes I need a box of kleenex to make it thru Ray Charles singing America.
The 1860 Army revolver is still one of the most stylish and graceful handguns ever made. Owning an original is a feather in Your hat! I use open tops of the 1860 Army and love them. If Colt would have seen fit to put the Army grip on the 1873, I think the firearms industry would have stood still until the swing out cylinder was invented.
Absolutely fascinating history, I've got to visit the Texas Ranger museum someday. Love it.
Great history lesson, thanks Mike!
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I liked it, I liked it! This is like the old radio serials, where we have to tune in next week. Great job Mike.
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Can't Wait for the second episode!
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As an historian I must say, "Way, way cool! Well done."
Thanks! That means a lot to me.
Is their eough work as a Historian outside of being a teacher or on tv historian ? I would like to do something for WWII history or become a psychologist.
@@DYLANJJK94 I went back to school and got an engineering degree.
you left out a very important point about the Patterson, it came with 2 cylinders and the Ranger would load one and put it in his pocket and then load the other. In a fight like the one you speak of, when the first cylinder was empty the Ranger would quickly switch cylinders and continue with the battle. After Patterson's were issued, the Comanche would say the each Rangers had as many guns as fingers.
Can't wait for part 2
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Thank you for posting. I enjoy your work.
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As a Texan, i really liked this video. IT was very informative. I knew a lot of this , but there is some i just learned..
Outstanding presentation. Thank you for posting
I loved the Transitional Walkers/Whitneyville Dragoons.
I love my colt 1851 revolver. It is a joy to shoot at the range. My wife even loves shooting it.
I enjoy your history lessons almost as much as your purely firearms videos!
Thanks!
Wow! I enjoyed this immensely. Thanks for sharing this history. 👍
Mike, you did a great job on this. My usual thing is to watch about half and then fall asleep, not on this video, I was wide awake the whole time. You really did do a great job. Thank You !
A sharp, pointy thing." Man, I LOVE your sense of humor!
That 1851 definitely points the best of all those old guns I've handled, I have three. Liked it so much I bought the Navy 1872 Open Top, points just like it.
Excellent informative history of both the Texas Ranges and Samual Colt. Looking forward to seeing part II. Thank you Mike!
I love learning about the history of firearms. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
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Born and raised in the Texas panhandle and I’ve always been fascinated by our history. Fantastic video 👍🏻
Sir, I did enjoy the video. My knoledge of the Texas Rangers is principally about the early years, and the Red River War years, so I will be looking forward to your part 2. Thank-you.
Wonderful presentation.
History is valuable.
Great piece of history.
I love Texas
Great history lesson! I have an 1851 navy, now I want to add a walker!
I enjoyed your video and found it to be very informative. I have distant relatives that still reside in Texas and they have ancestors that were Texas Rangers. I'm retired from law enforcement myself and enjoyed my service as a deputy sheriff and one of my assignments was in mounted patrol. So one of my childhood dreams of being a cowboy came true. We carried revolvers when i started my career and I use to keep a Colt Detective Special in a ankle holster as a back up. My primary issued weapon was a Ruger which I turned back in and used my Colt Python until I could buy a Smith and Wesson Model 19 Combat Master Piece.
Very informative, I really like history about guns and the men that made and used them, thank you very much and keep 'em comin
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13:25 the most powerful repeating handgun made. The single shots before them were more powerful. Great video
Been enjoying these history lessons very much! Thank you!
I lost my feed, but just found this! Thank you so much Mike, I love it!
Sometimes I think TH-cam messes with gun channels
Absolutely LOVED THIS! Not only the history, but seeing you shoot the weapons you were talking about!
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The Whitney/Mississippi rifle was used the same time as they used the Colt Walker. Both guns used the same powder charge (which explains why half the Walkers exploded.)
It certainly didn’t help things…LOL
Mike acccording to my family history John Coffee was my great-great grandfather...As a child at Hays Family reunions I remember the old folks telling tales about thaat time...too bad I did not have a cell phone back then..................
Well that is SUPER awesome!
I grew up around John Wilson and his collection of single action pistols, which all now reside in the TX Ranger Museum in Waco, TX.
A book you may find interesting
Indian Depravations in Texas
By Wilbarger
Originally published in 1896 about
Short stories based on letters and 1st person accounts of life on the Texas frontier from survivors of Indian attacks, etc. Covers noted frontiersmen, Texas Rangers, etc
It’s been reprinted many times and I got a copy from a bookstore 15 or 20 yrs ago in San Antonio. It was the first time I knew of the Council House fight in San Antonio, where Comanche Indian chiefs were invited to a peace talk that turned Into a general shootout in the streets by local citizens etc
No historical marker in SA for this event!!!
Hope you can get a copy
i did enjoy watching this. and just as importantly, i can tell you enjoyed making it. i see this was 2 years ago now. but the good thing for me, is i do not have to wait a week! thank you!
Yes sir I truly enjoyed this video you really bring history to life! Well done indeed!
Great history lesson! Looking forward to part 2!
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Awesome video and real history. As a Texan I greatly appreciate real History of my State.
Great video. Can't wait for part 2.
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Love the history lesson of the Texas Rangers, thanks Mike.
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As a Texan who grew up reading about Rangers I couldn't be happier with this video.
Rangers were kind more like Soldiers that handled warrants.
If you were wanted by Rangers in the 19th Century it's akin to the US Army in 2021 sending Army Rangers to serve a dead or alive warrant on mafia or cartel.
It's kinda over kill.
Haha. Well said! Have you ever been to their HOF and Museum in Waco? It's fantastic!
@@TheGunfighter45acp I've drove past it as a kid but I didn't get to go :/
@@gungriffen Well, if you ever make it back that way, be sure to treat yourself!
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@@TheGunfighter45acp It was so good! Just went!
Love hearing the history.
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Great history, thanks,
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I can't wait for part 2
Enjoyable as always.
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Wow, that is what trust and patriotism is, Kudos to Colt back in the day!
Thank you for this. Very interesting . Your knowledge , and willingness to share is to be commended .
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Being born and raised in Texas . I know the Texas ranger history well. Tough men in Tough times with the Indian wars , civil war, and reconstruction. My family had (treatise) with the Indians in the area. Not always good . I know of several altercations. The rangers knew the Hammack Ranch as a rough place for anyone. Most were outlaws when they came to Texas in my family from Tennessee! The posse didn't really want to catch up to them. More of make sure they didn't come back! 14 brothers and in-laws . They served on both sides of the Civil War! Old Texas frontier family! Mostly to mean to be around long! I'll leave it at that! It's in the Bell County area history as well as Burnet County,and Lampasas County. Coryell County! If anyone is interested in looking it up! I currently live in Oklahoma!
Being from Texas, I really enjoyed. Great job! Looking forward to part two.
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Just came across this, very informative, educational and entertaining. Thank you.
Love the history always love hearing this part of history thank you
Bravo. Excellent presentation.
Great history lesson, thanks. I always enjoy learning about actual events that don't make the history books.
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Love the history lesson! You should be a history teacher, Mike!
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Very educational video thank you! Maybe go on and describe what the Texas Rangers used from 1900 through to today.
I’ll give it some thought
That was very fun. Cannot wait for part 2.
Excellent account of history. Enjoyed it
Please continue with these series!
Thank you Sir! You are a great storyteller and know your history! You are my kind of man! Keep sharing your knowledge with anyone smart enough to listen! Thanks again friend!✌️
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Fascinating history. Thanks.
Great video, looking forward to part 2.
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my great great grandfather was a ranger in 1850s - fought indians alongside his friend big foot wallace - my father inherited a colt saa he had carried in the 1870s but it was lost during ww2