S8 Ep693: 1. Joe Pappalardo recounts the 1887 Sabine County shootout, where Texas Ranger Company F clashed with the Connor family. The narrative explores Texas's evolution into a modern state and the insular culture of East Texas. The Connors are depicted as skille
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 1:04.8 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 1:11.9 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 1:14.3 | Sabine County, Texas, March 31st, 1887, the moonlit pines of a thicket, it's called, a dense forest in East Texas. |
| 1:26.5 | Suddenly, gun flashes erupt. This is the centerpiece of the |
| 1:32.6 | explication of the Texas Rangers in Joe Popolardo's new book, Red Sky Morning, the epic true |
| 1:39.6 | story of Texas Ranger Company F. At this shootout, March 31st, 1887, and we need to tell the story |
| 1:48.0 | of who's shooting and who the captain and sergeant of Company F. are that get hit by the gunfire. |
| 1:55.0 | Joe, congratulations. It is wonderful to go to Texas because your history of Company F also tells the story of the transformation |
| 2:03.3 | of Texas into the modern super state that it is. The shooting that night is between Company F, led by |
| 2:10.8 | Captain Scott and Sergeant Brooks and the Conner family. Why are they shoot, why are the Rangers |
| 2:16.6 | shooting it out with the Connors? |
| 2:18.2 | Who are they? What did they do? Good evening to you, Joe. Hello and thank you so much for |
| 2:22.6 | having me. The Conner family and East Texas family of master hunters, backwoodsmen who live and |
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