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Here's John Bachelor.

Sabine County, Texas, March 31st, 1887, the moonlit pines of a thicket, it's called, a dense forest in East

Texas. Suddenly, gun flashes erupt. This is the centerpiece of the explication of the Texas

Rangers in Joe Popolardo's new book, Red Sky Morning, the epic true story of Texas Ranger Company F.

At this shootout, March 31st, 1887, and we need to tell the story of who's shooting and who the captain and

sergeant of Company F. are that get hit by the gunfire. Joe, congratulations it is

wonderful to go to Texas because your history of Company F also tells

the story of the transformation of Texas into the modern superstate that it is. The shooting that night is between Company

Af led by Captain Scott and Sergeant Brooks and the Connor family. Why are they

shoot, why are the Rangers shooting it out with the Connors who are they what

did they do good evening to you Joe hello and thank you so much for having me the

Connor family and East Texas family of master hunters,

back woodsmen who live and manage to do better

than scrape out but do actually make a very good living

out of terrain that most people in Texas don't know what to do with it. They run hogs, they cut timber. They are masters of their terrain there and they have been swept up into this very violent feud in

Sabine County with two other prominent families and there has been killings and

jailbreaks and now they're on the lam hiding in their own backyard and the Rangers has been

assigned to assigned to root them out one way or the other,

hence this moonlight raid.

This is an existential threat to the Connor family.

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