THE LAW: 3/4: 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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| 0:37.2 | Red Sky Morning is the new book, The Appetite Cruise Story of Texas Ranger Company F, |
| 0:42.0 | the shootout in March of 1887 in Sabine County. |
| 0:46.4 | Includes the severe wounding of the two leaders of the Ranger, |
| 0:50.9 | a unit, a company F, the killing of one, the murder of one |
| 0:56.1 | who's buried it with great mourning by the local people |
| 0:59.4 | and the wounding of another John Rogers who will become the praying |
| 1:04.4 | Ranger. He says, he's a severe presbyterian who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, you |
| 1:10.6 | understand. He will become a legendary captain in the future. |
| 1:15.6 | But right now we're following J.A. Brooks because he is the |
| 1:20.5 | sergeant that night and he will become a legendary captain of the |
| 1:24.9 | Rangers as well. But a year before in a town called Alex, |
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