257: Texas Ranger Company F Vs. The Conner Family w/ Joe Pappalardo

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The Texas Rangers in the late 1880s were a tough and colorful lot, especially the members of Company F. And while they made their livings hunting down outlaws, none proved more cunning than Willis Conner and his sons, a fugitive family accused of murdering two neighbors in a business dispute over pigs.

My guest is Joe Pappalardo, author of "Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F". He not only shares details of the events leading to the showdown between the Rangers and the Conners, but talks about one of the most vaunted members of Company F, James Brooks, and a fatal gunfight that got him indicted for murder.

More about the book and the author can be discovered here: https://www.joe-pappalardo.com/

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1:25.4	Welcome everyone to another episode of the most notorious podcast. I'm Eric Rivenes.
1:31.3	Thanks for swinging by for yet another historical true crime story. I'm very pleased to have
1:37.8	Joe Papalardo as my guest today. He is a journalist and a contributor to magazines that include popular
1:45.0	mechanics, national geographic, and Texas monthly. His work has appeared on sqire.com, time, and American way,
1:55.7	along with just about every cable news channel there is. He is a 2022 aerospace media award nominee
2:05.3	for writing about spaceflight propulsion and a finalist for the 2007 International Aerospace
2:14.0	Journalist of the Year Award. He's also appeared on the History Channel and the Science Channel,
2:20.3	and he is the author of four nonfiction books, including Sunflowers, the Secret History,
2:26.3	Spaceport Earth, Inferno, and his latest, just released in June of 2022, and the subject of our
2:35.1	interview today, Red Sky Morning, the epic true story of Texas Ranger Company F. Thanks for coming on.
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