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SIX YEARS WITH THE TEXAS RANGERS1875 TO 1881
James B. GilletteYale University PressNew Haven, Connecticut1925
E-Book Project Staff : Robert Nieman, Volunteer; Byron A. Johnson, Christina Stopka& Judy Shofner, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum staff.
 
 
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elcome to the E-Book Project of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum (TRHFM). The TRHFM, located in Waco,Texas, is the State-designated Official Historical Center of theTexas Rangers. It is operated as a service of City of Waco byauthorization of the Texas Department of Public Safety and theState of Texas.The mission of this project is to provide easy access to books, oral histories dissertations, articles,and other literary works on Texas Ranger history.
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INTRODUCTION
The story of the Texas Rangers has never been told in its entirety, nor can it be toldwithout recounting the history of Texas itself. The modest volume of Sergeant James B.Gillett, here presented to the reader, does not undertake to recount the history of theRanger organization, but merely to present a cross section of that history during thepicturesque, lurid years of Sergeant Gillett’s service as a Ranger.The term Ranger carries the tang of the old American frontier, and as applied to theTexas State Police it embodies a wealth of historical association. Probably the mostnotable Ranger force in American annals was the organization of irregular partisanwarriors led by Major Robert Rogers in the French and Indian War. Rogers’ Rangersand the Texas Rangers share in common the quality of being composed of pickedmen trained to the use of arms and ready at all times to engage in any enterprise howeverhazardous it might be: but while the earlier organization was of but temporaryduration, created for service in a foreign war, the more recent one is permanent,having existed almost a hundred years.The history of the Texas Rangers is coeval with that of the republic itself. “Beforethe first gun of the Texas Revolution was fired at Gonzales in December 1835, before theDeclaration of Texan Independence was adopted, before the heroes of the Alamo laiddown their lives for freedom, and before the Mexican Army under Santa Anna wasdestroyed by Sam Houston at San Jacinto, a Ranger force was organized in Texas.”Thus spoke Chief Justice Fly of the Texas Civil Court of Appeals in a recent decisionThe source of this Texas Ranger Hall of Fame E-Book™ is in the public domain. However, thisfile may not be changed, re-distributed, sold, rented, or modified without the permission of theDirector, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum. PO Box 2570, Waco, Texas 76702-2570.1 
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