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Offline Richard S

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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2010, 09:59:55 AM »
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You  are right, there were some TN boys at the Alamo.

These 32, I believe:

Micajah Autry
Joseph Bayliss
John Blair
Samuel C. Blair
Robert Campbell
George Washington Cottle
David Crockett
Squire Daymon
William Dearduff
Almeron Dickerson
John H. Dillard
James L. Ewing
William Garnett
James Girard Garrett
John Camp Goodrich
Charles M. Haskell
William Marshall
Jesse McCoy
Thomas R. Miller
William Mills
Andrew M. Nelson
James Robertson
Andrew H. Smith
A. Spain Summerlin
William E. Summers
Edward Taylor
George Taylor
James Taylor
William Taylor
Asa Walker
Jacob Walker
Joseph G. Washington

Texas and Tennessee do indeed have a special bond between them in history and culture.
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2010, 04:51:13 PM »

Watching this DVD about the Texas Rangers, Jack Hays, Leander McNelly, et. al., is what piqued my interest in this extraordinary chapter of Texas and American history.



http://www.legendsofamerica.com/Video/texasrangers.html  
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2010, 05:26:09 PM »
Very interesting stuff, there, tracker, for sure!  Thanks!  I found a favorite place to visit in NC on this site.  Just click on a your state on tracker's post and find your interest.

http://www.biltmore.com/landing/10_summer_visits.asp


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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2010, 06:16:30 PM »

Thanks, KJ; I missed that feature the first time around. The Biltmore is indeed one of America's treasures. This editorial appeared in the N.Y. Times today. I would love to hear Captain Hays's remarks after reading this one.



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11sun1.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2010, 07:05:41 PM »
May a merciful God save us from the "Nannys" among us.
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2010, 07:42:00 PM »
Silly me; I thought it was the Constitution that was "obdurate", not our lawmakers and lobbyists.
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2010, 03:37:55 AM »
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The history of Tennessee and Texas fits like a hand in a glove. The two state universities even have the same colors. Thanks, Reinz; I am very proud of the legacy.

That school in Austin really shouldn't be mentioned in polite company... ;D
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #22 on: July 14, 2010, 10:54:08 AM »
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That school in Austin really shouldn't be mentioned in polite company... ;D

One of my former partners was from a certain school in College Station. He maintained that after about ten years following graduation a good percentage of the alumni of the school in Austin would use the term "Boss" when addressing alumni of the school in College Station. I, of course, have no knowledge of the validity of such an assertion.  ;D
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #23 on: July 14, 2010, 11:06:43 AM »

As a fearless warrior, Captain Jack Hays does sound more like Aggie material to me.
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #24 on: July 14, 2010, 11:26:20 AM »
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"Tracker" is absolutely right about Colonel Hays. By way of further example, the following is an excerpt from page 2 of the book, Lone Star Lawmen -- The Second Century of the Texas Rangers, by Robert M. Utley:

[size=10]The model for all subsequent [Ranger] captains, John Coffee Hays pioneered mounted combat by adopting the first revolving pistol, the five-shot Paterson Colt. At the Battle of Walker Creek in 1844, he and fourteen Rangers took on seventy Comanche warriors and employed the revolver so effectively that only twenty Indians escaped the battlefield unhurt.[/size]

[size=10]Edit: Typo.[/size]


I knew that book would come in handy one day! ;)
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #25 on: July 14, 2010, 11:32:54 AM »
Hullabaloo, Caneck!  Caneck!    ;D
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2010, 11:48:37 AM »
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I knew that book would come in handy one day! ;)

That was a test to see if you were alert and on duty. ;)  (Enigma sold me the book as a fundraiser for the "Cult of the P7" forum.)   8)
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #27 on: July 14, 2010, 11:55:47 AM »
That was certainly good of you, P7, to do that.  You're a great contributor!    ;D  Even though you did sell it!   :D
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #28 on: July 14, 2010, 12:01:06 PM »
KJ:

Comparing our post counts, it would appear that I am about to pass the baton.  ;D
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Re: Colonel Jack Hays Texas Ranger
« Reply #29 on: July 14, 2010, 12:02:19 PM »

I think that was the goal.
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