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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: One Riot, One Ranger Fuels 200-Year Old Legend
Description:
Texas kicked off festivities on Texas Independence Day, to commemorate the 2023 Bicentennial of the Texas Rangers.
As the Rangers approach their 200th year of service, their legend is embodied in the following quote.
When Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald was sent to Dallas in the 1890s to prevent a scheduled prizefight, McDonald was greeted at the train station by the city’s anxious mayor, who asked: “Where are the others?” McDonald supposedly replied, “Hell! ain’t I enough? There’s only one prize-fight!” (credit: Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum).
The Texas Rangers are th...