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Unofficially formed by Stephen Austin in 1823 and officially organized in 1835, the Texas Rangers has a storied history of tracking down fugitives and protecting the border. This circa 1885-88 cabinet card is an excellent photo of Company “F” of the Frontier Battalion.
– Courtesy Robert G. McCubbin Collection –
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Christopher Kilbride
Christopher Kilbride If you really enlarge the picture you'll see just how young nearly all of the Rangers in the picture are (especially some of them in the back row) I knew that the average age of a company (like the one in the picture) was in the very early 20's. It's seeing this picture that brings it home to you how young many rangers were. They may all be dressed very much alike, but they all look so damn smart.
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Jimbo Bearclaw
Jimbo Bearclaw You want to secure the Border? There is your answer. Better yet, we have all these U.S. Troops being paid to defend America setting on Bases training for the day it comes. Why not deploy them to Americas Borders! They can do real life training there and keep their oath to uphold the U.S Constitution and defend America! A wall? We dont need No sticking wall!
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Back to the Future with J. Frank Dobie
Back to the Future with J. Frank Dobie - True West Magazine
When the directors of the University of Texas Press decided to reissue eight J. Frank Dobie classics from its catalog two years ago, a discussion between…
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Jim Trumbo
Jim Trumbo I am a huge fan of Dobie's works,also of Fred Gipson and always indebted to Joe Small for founding True West Magazine which I have been reading for well over 50 years
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Robert Richter
Robert Richter If you want the real West... You read Frank Dobie... If you haven't read Frank Dobie... Get out of town before making a fool of yourself around people that have... Just purchased a copy of "A Vaquero in the Brush Country"... Read it as a kid... Going to read it once more before I die...
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Arizona’s Laddie Godiva
Arizona’s Laddie Godiva - True West Magazine
During the early 1900s Rufus Nephew aka “Climax Jim,” was one of the most notorious horse thieves in Arizona. 
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Sonja Heinrich Medford
Sonja Heinrich Medford :wonder how much of this is true: 1900s Rufus Nephew aka “Climax Jim,” was one of the most notorious horse thieves in Arizona. Lawmen caught him one day and hauled him into the Springerville jail. Realiz...See More
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Carl Lockard
Carl Lockard I never heard this story or about him but it sure would have been a lot of laughter going on in that town
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Now That was a Party
Now That was a Party - True West Magazine
Perhaps the most riveting moment in American history to date was 2:40 p.m., Monday, May 10, 1869. 
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Jack Zielke
Jack Zielke I have been to that point, but the party was over.
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Robert E. Mims
Robert E. Mims We in the South don't want your union. We still are under the usurpers and occupiers....the loathsome miasma that resides upon the River Potomac.
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The Wild West of James D. Horan
The Wild West of James D. Horan - True West Magazine
James D. Horan was a prolific writer, a New York newspaperman who also penned history, historical fiction and novels (more than 40 books total). 
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