S8 Ep693: 3. The author follows Sergeant J.A. Brooks through a legal crisis after a fatal shootout in Indian Territory. Charged with murder, Brooks faced Judge Isaac Parker’s "dungeon" at Fort Smith. Despite a manslaughter conviction, political influence from Texas
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
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3. The author follows Sergeant J.A. Brooks through a legal crisis after a fatal shootout in Indian Territory. Charged with murder, Brooks faced Judge Isaac Parker’s "dungeon" at Fort Smith. Despite a manslaughter conviction, political influence from Texas Democrats secured a presidential pardon from Grover Cleveland, successfully salvaging his very legendary career. (3)
1920 BRECKENRIDGE TEXAS
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| 0:41.7 | I'm John Bachelor with Joe Poplargo. Red Sky Morning is the new book, The Epicruce story of Texas Ranger Company F. The shootout in March of 1887 in Sabine County includes the severe wounding of the two |
| 0:49.9 | leaders of the Ranger Unit, Company F, the killing of one, the murder of one, |
| 0:56.9 | who's buried with great mourning by the local people, and the wounding of another John Rogers |
| 1:03.0 | who will become the praying Ranger. He's a severe, a Presbyterian who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, you understand. |
| 1:12.3 | He will become a legendary captain in the future. |
| 1:16.4 | But right now we're following J.A. Brooks because he is the sergeant that night, |
| 1:22.9 | and he will become a legendary captain of the Rangers as well. |
| 1:26.7 | But a year before, in a town called Alex, Brooks is caught up in law enforcement. |
| 1:34.5 | He's asked to back up an Indian agent who is in town to confront a gunslinger cowboy who's |
| 1:41.5 | well connected, coming from a wealthy family named st john the events of that day |
| 1:46.8 | very much changed the direction of sergeant brooks's life and it gives him a taste of the other |
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