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TEXAS RANGERS

 

             The Texas Rangers have played an effective, valiant, and honorable role throughout the early years of Texas. The ranger service has differed in organization and policy under varying conditions, demands for service, and state administrations, and it has not been of entirely unbroken continuity. However, it has existed almost continuously from the year of colonization to the present. .
             In 1821, it all began with a man named Stephen F. Austin, known as the "father of Texas", made a contract to bring three hundred families to the Spanish province, which now is Texas. By 1823, the population had doubled or tripled its size, and colonists from various places of United States came to live among this area and there was no protection for them. So Austin called the citizens together and organized a group to provide the needed protection. Austin referred to this group as the Rangers, of 1823. This was the beginning of the Rangers. .
             The Rangers duties during this colonization period compelled them to range over the entire country, thus giving rise to the service known as the Texas Rangers.
             Throughout the Years, the Texas Rangers differed in organizations. After Austin, the man who created this group, returned from hours imprisonment in Mexico in 1835, a body was organized called the "Permanent Council." In October 17, 1835 a member of this organized body offered a resolution creating a corps of Texas Rangers. Several men of this body took several Texas Rangers under them and assigned them to different areas of Texas. Some of these areas were East side of Trinity, between Brazos and Colorado and the frontier. Their duties were to guard and protect the frontier against the Indians until the end of the Revolution.
             It was during this period that the Texas Rangers began to make a name for themselves that spread far beyond the borders of the state. After the Revolution and up to 1840, the Rangers were used principally for protection against the Indians, and history shows that they were very active in this service.


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