TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 4 | “Family Feuds”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1870s, the Horrell brothers were involved in the murder of a sheriff, the murders of State Police officers, a jailbreak, and a bloody episode known as the Horrell War in New Mexico before the infamous Lincoln County War. In 1877, they become embroiled in a deadly feud with the Higgins clan until Major John B. Jones dreams up a creative solution. Meanwhile, during the early stages of the problems with the Horrell brothers, a former captain of the State Police, Leander McNelly, creates a militia unit to try to stop the notoriously bloody Sutton-Taylor feud in South Texas. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY “The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900” by Mike Cox “The Ranger Ideal, Vol. 1&2” by Darren L. Ivey “Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers” by Robert M. Utley “The Texas Rangers” by Walter Prescott Webb “Captain L.H. McNelly: Texas Ranger” by Chuck Parsons & Marianne E. Hall Little “Taming the Nueces Strip” by George Durham “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” by Doug J. Swanson “Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman” by J. Evetts Haley “Comanches: A History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbach “The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West” by Peter Cozzens Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.9	15, which gave the Rangers a new directive. Henceforth, their primary job was law enforcement, and their secondary job was fighting Native American raiding parties.
1:08.0	By that time, many of the Rangers were equipped with the famous Winchester 1873 model repeating rifle, the gun that won the
1:16.2	west and they would need them. Crime was rampant in Texas long before the Comanche and Kiowa began to decline with the Red River War in 1874 and the surrender of Kwanap Parker in 1875.
1:30.0	With new counties forming up and down the hill country west of Austin and San Antonio,
1:35.0	and cattle ranches growing at a torrid pace, the lawlessness grew worse.
1:40.0	A letter to a publication called The Victorian put it bluntly and comically.
1:46.0	The whole state is lawless, armed to the teeth.
1:50.0	Robbers robbed 15 men on the way to Dallas. Cattle thieves are the worst ever.
1:55.8	Crime runs riot over the land. It is about time for Gabriel to blow his wind instrument,
2:02.1	but God help him if he lays it down, for someone in Texas
2:05.7	will surely steal it.
2:08.9	Richard Maxwell Brown's book from 1975 called Strain of Violence Historical Studies of American Violence
2:16.4	and Vigilantism lists 27 documented instances in appendix number three of
2:22.4	vigilante activity or mob activity in 38 counties in Texas during the Old West era.
2:29.0	And Brown estimates that the true number is much higher, and that list only counts things like the Mason County War, also known as the Hoodoo War.
2:39.2	It doesn't count feuds between warring groups like the Horrell Higgins feud and the Sutton Taylor
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