WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT, PRINT THE LEGEND: 2/4: 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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| 0:36.0 | Joe Popolarda's new book is Red Sky Morning, |
| 0:38.8 | the epic true story of Texas Ranger Company F, |
| 0:41.8 | the shootout that takes place in March of 1887 is led by a man |
| 0:46.6 | named Will Scott. Where does he come from? Why is he such a tough guy? Why is he so good at running |
| 0:52.2 | a Ranger Company that's about 10 or 11 or 12 men coming |
| 0:56.8 | and going, but it's discipline. |
| 0:59.0 | And Captain Scott sets the tone of everybody, very stoic, hard riding, extremely hard riding, |
| 1:07.6 | living the life in the wilderness as they move around the state as law enforcement by his beginning is as a volunteer detective how |
| 1:16.3 | so Joe yeah the toughness in the guile you can see from the beginning of his law |
| 1:21.9 | enforcement career because he's a self-appointed |
| 1:25.1 | undercover detective. He infiltrates a very infamous, the most infamous gang at the time, the |
| 1:31.8 | Sam Bas gang, it was committing a series of |
| 1:34.6 | very brazen robberies and outside of Dallas he decides independently to track them |
| 1:42.0 | down infiltrate the gang and turn over information to the Texas Rangers |
| 1:45.6 | had been hunting them. So he does this all in his own as a very young man and it works. almost gets killed for for his pains but it does work he |
| 1:56.3 | delivers some information to the Rangers and he becomes a Ranger and that's how he |
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