The Texas Rangers

A Captivating Guide to the History of a Law Enforcement Agency That Has Helped Stop Some of America's Most Infamous Criminals and Their Role in the Mexican-American War

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Texas Rangers, then pay attention...

Before Texas became a state in the United States of America, Texas Rangers would become the first state law enforcement agency that would be formed.

For about 150 years, this group of law enforcement agents has been viewed as both heroes and villains. Often portrayed in the movies and on TV as the kind of men who stick up for justice or who are the victims of truly sinister bad guys, the reality was far less black and white.

Founded by Stephen F. Austin in 1823, the Texas Rangers began as a group of volunteers who patrolled the borders and towns in the Mexican territory. Serving as both protectors of the settlers and police against criminals within the settlement, the Rangers had a wide range of skills.

In The Texas Rangers: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Law Enforcement Agency That Has Helped Stop Some of America's Most Infamous Criminals and Their Role in the Mexican-American War, you will discover topics, such as:

• Stephen Austin and the Founding of the Texas Rangers
• Growing Discontentment in Texas and the War for Texas Independence
• Protecting New Settlers After the Revolution
• Driving the Natives from Their Homes
• The Annexation of Texas
• The Mexican-American War
• Corruption, Loss of Popularity, Rebuilding and Restoring an Earlier Image
• The Fence Cutting Wars
• The Injustice Perpetrated by the Texas Rangers
• Some of the More Notable Texas Rangers
• Sam Bass
• John Wesley Hardin
• The Assassination Attempt
• Role in the Bandit War
• Taking Down Bonnie and Clyde
• The Murder of Irene Garza
• Their Role Today
• And much, much more!

So, if you want to learn more about the Texas Rangers, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!

©2020 Captivating History (P)2020 Captivating History

Just An Orerview

This book concentrated too much on Texas history and not the Rangers history. They could’ve found more authentic sounding Texan narrator as well.

not bad

great content... being a texan, its hard to listen to the narrator mispronounce the names of rivers, people, etc.

The real west

Awesome tale of the old west. Fell of adventure and excitement. I highly recommend this Audiobook.

A happy surprise

If a few words, I started listening to this Audiobook just to pass some time. Once I started listening, I realized that it could be a decent Listen. I was wrong. It was a great Listener.

AMRTICA IS EVIL EVIL EVIL...according to C Histiry

BEWARE OF ANY CAPTIVATING HISTORTY INVOLVING AMERICA.

I have heard at least 2 dozen Captivating History books. EVERY TIME THERE IS THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE THEY DOWNGRADE AMERICA, STATING STRAIGHT OUT HOW AWFUL US IS. There is NO effort made to give an unbiased, or at least two sided, view of the US in ANY of the Captivating History's that I have read when there is the smallest chance to bash US. One example...how awful that the Rangers killed multiple murderer Sam Bass, who "only stole from people who could afford it". That is an actual quote...

Inn this instance America STOLE Texas and California from poor Mexico, Never mind that the population of TX and CA before Americans began coming to both areas was only a few thousand people, after over THREE HUNDRED YEARS of Spanish and Mexican rule. The Spanish ASKED the Americans to come because people were needed to use the land.

Manifest Destiny is a legitimate idea...using the resources of an entire continent for the benefit of and realization of the American Dream for poor people from every continent on earth. It is true, and an enormous tragedy, that Native Americans were almost destroyed, primarily by DEISEASE. No getting around it. It certainly would have been better if a way had been found to live together. But if, for example, the Comanche had been able to keep their traditional hunting and raiding territories, all of West TX, Eastern CO and Western OK, Southern Kansas and ALL of Northern Mexico would still be theirs. Read "Empire of the Simmer Moon". A gross exaggeration in this book against the Comanche is that all the captives they had taken had to be "rescued". Read "The Captured", or "Nine years among the Indians" if you want the REAL story about Comanche "captives".

If America "stole" TX from Mexico, then THEY stole it from Spain, who stole it from the Aztec, who stole it from the Toltec, who stole it from the Mayan...let's face it...all the way back to Adam and Eve. I am beginning to understand now how our education system is teaching young people that America is evil. Every part of our history is presented in the most unfavorable light possible...stole, lied, murdered. Yet in the CH's book about the Opium Wars in China, when the British wanted to shove trade down China's throat, and addicted the entire country to opium, it was the CHINESE FAULT for not doing what Britain wanted. Get a grip CH, because all you will be getting from me every time you don't try to present a balanced view of American history it would b ZERO stars for me if I could.

The old days

I enjoyed "A Texas Ranger". The way they lived and worked was not for the average guy. Great history lesson.

they don't tell facts

They do not tell all the facts in stories. Where the Comanche burned the girls nose off and gangrapping all grown girls.

Great overview

This Audiobook gives a great overview of the Texas Rangers adventures by a person that personally was there.