THE LAW: 2/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo (Author)
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
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https://www.amazon.com/Red-Sky-Morning-Ranger-Company/dp/1250275245/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LYPTU9SWQ97W&keywords=RED+SKY+MORNING&qid=1669241540&s=books&sprefix=red+sky+morning%2Cstripbooks%2C77&sr=1-1Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Texas Ranger Company F, was engaged in three fatal gunfights, endured disfiguring bullet wounds, engaged in countless manhunts, was convicted of second-degree murder, and rattled Washington, D.C. with a request for a pardon from the US president. His story anchors the tale of Joe Pappalardo's Red Sky Morning, an epic saga of lawmen and criminals set in Texas during the waning years of the “Old West.”
Alongside Brooks are the Rangers of Company F, who range from a pious teetotaler to a cowboy fleeing retribution for killing a man. They are all led by Captain William Scott, who cut his teeth as a freelance undercover informant but was facing the end of his Ranger career. Company F hunted criminals across Texas and beyond, killing them as needed, and were confident they could bring anyone to “Ranger justice.” But Brooks’ men met their match in the Conner family, East Texas master hunters and jailbreakers who were wanted for their part in a bloody family feud.
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| 0:30.0 | I'm John Batchler, Joe Pappalardo's new book is Red Sky Morning, the epic true story of |
| 0:39.6 | Texas Ranger Company F. |
| 0:41.3 | The shootout that takes place in March of 1887 is led by a man named Will Scott. |
| 0:47.2 | Where does he come from? |
| 0:48.2 | Why is he such a tough guy? |
| 0:49.6 | Why is he so good at running a Ranger Company that's about 10 or 11 or 12 men coming and going? |
| 0:56.5 | But it's disciplined. |
| 0:57.9 | And Captain Scott sets the tone of everybody, very stoic, hard riding, extremely hard riding, |
| 1:06.7 | living the life and the wilderness as they move around the state as law enforcement. |
| 1:12.3 | His beginning is as a volunteer detective. |
| 1:15.0 | How so, Joe? |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah, the toughness and the guile you can see from the beginning of his law enforcement career, |
| 1:21.7 | because he's a self-appointed undercover detective. |
| 1:25.8 | He infiltrates a very infamous, the most infamous gang at the time, the San Bas gang. |
| 1:31.1 | It was committing a series of very brazen robberies and outside of Dallas, |
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