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Stephen F. Austin Creates the Texas Rangers. They were created to protect settlers from Indians and Mexicans.
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The Texas Rangers become a offical group.
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The Texas Rangers icrease to 300 men.
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Mirabeau uses the Rangers to attack the Indians. He rejected Houston's ideas to make peace.
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Houston passed a law for people to act as "Rangers"
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During the Mexican American War The Rangers played a big role in keeping peace on the frontier
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When the war was over Then Rangers became smaller in numbers.
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Houston called on The Rangers help in the Civil War.
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From 1865-1873 the Rangers were state police.
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After 1874 the Rangers tried to capture outlaws all over Texas.
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The Rangers on a trail of John Hardin a major felon.
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The Rangers find arrest Hardin and his gang.
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Sam Bass held up two stagecoaches and four trains. He found himself a target for the Rangers.
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The Rangers find Sam Bass and fighting breaks out. Bass is injured and one killed. No Rangers were harmed.
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The Rangers have captured over 3,000 men, the frontier is disappearing.
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The Frontier Battalion was abolished in 1901 and the Ranger force was cut to four groups.
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In 1914, during the early days of World War I, the Rangers had the task of rounding up spies, conspirators, saboteurs, and draft dodgers in Texas.
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The Rangers were losing men and they were left with about 60 men.
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The Rangers job was patrolling the Rio Grande River against tequila smugglers and cattle rustlers
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During the Great Depression, the Ranger force was cut to 45 men. Adding to the fire, the Rangers supported Governor Ross Sterling against Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson in the Democratic primary in the fall of 1932
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As a result, when Ferguson took office in January, 1933, she fired every ranger, salaries were slashed and the were cut to thirty-two men. Without the protection of the Rangers, Texas soon became a place for outlaws such as Raymond Hamilton, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
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After tracking the Barrow gang across nine states, Frank Hamer, in conjunction with law enforcement in Louisiana, learned that Bonnie and Clyde had visited Bienville Parish and that Clyde had designated a rendezvous point near there with gang member Henry Methvin.
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However, around 9:10 a.m. on May 23, 1934, the posse, in the bushes and almost ready face defeat, heard Clyde's stolen car approaching. When he stopped to speak with Henry Methvin's father, planted there with his truck that morning to distract Clyde and force him into the lane closest to the posse, they opened fire, killing Bonnie and Clyde while shooting a combined total of approximately 130 rounds.
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James Allred became the Texas governor. The legislature soon established the Texas Department of Public Safety
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The Texas Ranger are still used today. They have investigated crimes ranging from murder to political corruption, kept the peace during riots, protected the Texas governor, tracked down fugitives, and functioned as a quasi-military force
