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thank you so much for your support. And now it is time for today's episode of Tales of the

Texas Rangers. The original air date on this one is August the 12th, 1950, and the title is the

Broken Spur. Wheaties presents Joel McRae in Tales of the Texas Rangers.

On stage tonight, transcribed from Hollywood, another in the Wheaties big parade of exciting

half-hour presentations. Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McRae as Ranger Pearson.

Texas more than 260,000 square miles and 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law

enforcement body in North America.

Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts.

Only names, dates and places are fictitious or obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter

of record. Tonight's case, the Broken Spur.

Saturday night, June 5th, 1948, the time 10pm. On a small ranch 10 miles south of

Cranston, Irwin County, Texas, Milton Thomas was counting a large sum of money, a

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