WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 1/4: Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo (Author)
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
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Between 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.”
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| 0:37.0 | Sabine County, Texas, March 31st, 1887, the moonlit pines of a thicket, it's called, a dense forest in East Texas. |
| 0:50.0 | Suddenly, gun flashes erupt. |
| 0:53.4 | This is the centerpiece of the explication of the Texas Rangers in Joe Popolardo's new book, |
| 1:00.9 | Red Sky Morning, the epic true story of Texas Ranger Company F. |
| 1:06.4 | At this shootout, March 31st, 1887, and we need to tell the story of who's shooting and who the captain and sergeant of Company F are that get hit by the gunfire. |
| 1:18.4 | Joe, congratulations. |
| 1:20.0 | It is wonderful to go to Texas because your history of Company F also tells the story of the |
| 1:26.2 | transformation of Texas into the modern super state that it is. |
| 1:31.2 | The shooting that night is between Company Aff led by Captain Scott and Sergeant Brooks and the |
| 1:36.8 | Connor family. Why are the Rangers shooting it out with the Connors? Who are they? What did they do? Good evening to you Joe. |
| 1:44.8 | Hello and thank you so much for having me. The Connor family and East Texas family of |
| 1:51.5 | master hunters, back woodsmen who live and manage to do better than scrape out but do actually make a very good living out of terrain that most people in Texas don't know what to do with it. They run hogs, they cut timber. They are masters of their terrain there and they have been swept up into this very violent feud in Sabine County with two other prominent families. |
| 2:18.0 | And there has been killings and jail breaks and now they're on the lamb hiding in their own backyard and the |
| 2:23.3 | Rangers have been assigned to root them out one way or the other and it's this |
| 2:26.9 | moonlight raid. This is an existential threat to the Connor family. Old man |
| 2:31.9 | Connor, Willis Connor, comes from Florida I believe and he has a |
| 2:36.8 | patchy background. Although I learned from you Joe, everybody in the 19th century carrying |
| 2:42.0 | a weapon has a patchy background and they didn't move |
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