EP. 59: The Texas Rangers-The First of Many Battles
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In the first days of 1836 revolution was brewing in Texas. The battle of Gonzales had spawned the Texian conquest of La Bahia and Bexar. The Texians were sure the Mexicans would soon see the wisdom of allowing the Texians their own government. The Indians, however, just saw opportunity. Depredations continued and the further up the Guadalupe river you lived, the more danger you faced. That danger reached Sarah Hibbens and her family. This wasn’t her first suffering at the hand of the indians and it wouldn’t be her last. But after a harrowing escape from the horror of captivity, she ran into a new force that would change the course of Indian/settler relations forever: The Texas Rangers. Captain Tumlinson and his men chased the Indians into the area that would later become the capital of the Republic of Texas. Hear the story of the first battle between Texas Rangers and Comanche Indians in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm your host Ken Wise, and I want to thank you |
| 0:14.6 | for tuning in for some Texas history today. |
| 0:17.4 | Well, things have been really hopping around world headquarters. |
| 0:20.7 | I just finished an article that's going to be published in the Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, a commemorative issue celebrating the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of World War I. |
| 0:31.0 | So don't worry, I will post that on our social media |
| 0:35.0 | channels when it comes out. It's going to be a great celebration. There's going to be |
| 0:38.7 | an event in Austin on November the 14th in the Supreme Court courtroom commemorating the lawyers and judges that fought in |
| 0:45.6 | World War I. So if you're around the Austin area on November the 14th, be sure to |
| 0:49.5 | check that out. Continuing the work over here on the Why's About Texas YouTube channel, we've got a couple |
| 0:56.5 | dozen Texas History Minute videos shot from different parts of the state. |
| 1:01.8 | That's still a work in progress and we're all fighting for spare time so bear with me. |
| 1:06.6 | The channel is up. |
| 1:07.6 | It's wise about Texas but the it's not exactly polished yet. |
| 1:13.4 | And working on a book project that I just recently started requiring a lot of research in Austin |
| 1:18.6 | which is fun and interesting but time consuming. I guess I guess it never ends but I love it |
| 1:26.0 | and I hope you love it as much as I do and that's why you're tuning in to Wies |
| 1:29.8 | about Texas. Well it's been a little while since the I did the first episode on the |
| 1:35.8 | Texas Rangers so today we're going to expand on an event that was mentioned in |
| 1:41.0 | that episode that was episode 50 of Wies About Texas, by the way. |
| 1:45.8 | And as I mentioned in that episode and others, |
| 1:49.8 | I think my strategy for the podcast |
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