La Matanza - The Slaughter

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The 1919 Texas Ranger Investigation - and the Canales Hearing that followed - shed light on misconduct and atrocities committed by one of the most legendary branches of law enforcement between the years 1910 and 1920. An era known to some as La Mantanza - The Slaughter. What events unfolded to cause the darkest hour of the Texas Rangers? And who was Jose Canales, the man brave enough to stand up against them? Today we remember the victims. Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Dark History of the Texas Rangers - https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871929844/cult-of-glory-reveals-the-dark-history-of-the-texas-rangers Porvenir Massacre Descendants - https://time.com/5682139/porvenir-massacre-descendants/ Big Wonderful Thing Excerpt | Sediciosos - https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/big-wonderful-thing-excerpt-sediciosos/ The Murder of Bazan & Longoria - https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/family-members-reflect-on-tragedy-that-occurred-back-in-1915/ How ‘The Highwaymen’ whitewashes Frank Hamer & the Texas Rangers - https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/31/how-highwaymen-whitewashes-frank-hamer-texas-rangers/ Photo of Texas Rangers with Dead Mexicans - https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/history-culture/article/Early-1900s-photos-recount-horrific-bloodshed-on-6815938.php Entire Transcript of Canales Hearing - https://www.texasranger.org/texas-ranger-museum/researching-rangers/1919-canales-investigation/ Refusing to Forget - https://refusingtoforget.org/ Refusing to Forget lecture by John Moran Gonzalez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFN8r9Cng0 The Injustice Never Leaves You lecture by Monica Munoz Martinez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXy7yb6O7Q Lone on the Range | Texas Monthly - https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/lone-on-the-range-texas-lawmen/ Jose Canales’ Grave - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80921621/jos_-tom_s-canales Johanna July & the Black Seminoles | Texas History Lessons - https://www.texashistorylessons.com/johanna-july-and-the-black-seminoles/ The Lawless Horrel Brothers Pt 1 | Obscure History - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawless-horrel-brothers-the-legend-of-sammyville-part-1/id1496667775?i=1000551740459 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	There was this Texas Ranger by the name of Bill McDonald who was sent to Dallas with orders
0:34.5	to break up in a legal boxing match. Upon arrival, the nervous mayor
0:38.6	asked McDonald where the others were. You know, where are your fellow Rangers? To which he replied,
0:43.5	hell, ain't I enough? I mean, there's only one prize fight. Or so the legend goes. I guess the
0:50.4	idea was that one rough situation or one rough town only called from one Texas Ranger.
0:56.9	And while that is largely myth, it ain't that far-fetched. Ranger McDonald himself stared down angry mobs all on his own.
1:04.8	So did legendary Ranger Frank Hamer. Both men put their lives on the line more than once to protect innocent people and prisoners, criminals, and they weren't the only ones.
1:15.3	From the very beginning is the last line of defense against hostile Comanches, to the Mexican-American War, where the Rangers earned the nickname Los Diablo Tejanos and beyond.
1:25.8	These brave men donned the badge and saved countless lives. According to
1:30.7	records from 1895, in just one year, the Texas Rangers scouted over 170,000 miles, made nearly
1:38.2	700 arrests, returned 2,800 head of stolen livestock to the owners, assisted civil authorities 162 times, and guarded
1:46.8	jails on 13 occasions.
1:49.1	We're talking about a law enforcement organization so famous, so legendary, that the German
1:54.0	press even mistakenly reported that Texas Ranger paratroopers had invaded France during
1:59.5	World War II.
2:00.9	Obviously, the Texas Rangers never had paratroopers, but that's how far-reaching their
2:05.7	reputation was.
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