The Highwaymen (2019) Kevin Costner as Frank Hamer. During the next ten years, the country would see no less than ten presidents. The rebels loaded their wounded onto horses and rode off in the blackness, shouting, “Gringos cabrones!” Portus Gay later said that they had wounded half the raiders, some of whom had to be tied to their saddles. I will not state just how or why he died.” The obvious inference was that one of the posse murdered him. Gault is eating a slice of cake and Frank's drinking a cup of coffee], [Describing his son, Clyde Barrow, as a child and youngster], Original NETFLIX Films and Docs that don't SUCK. Frank Hamer | I ain't got no bullets in me. He exposed the Texas Bankers’ Association’s “murder machine” in 1928. President Woodrow Wilson refused to extend official recognition to any of them. Never was a group of Mexicans so happy to see a Texas Ranger. He was also employed as a wrangler on Barry Ketchum’s horse ranch. De la Rosa was a former shopkeeper, ex–deputy sheriff, and suspected cattle thief. He took two images of Frank Hamer and another posseman, who appears to be Jim Dunaway, posing on horseback behind the dead bodies and holding the captured battle flag between them. Image is in the public domain via Slate.com. He is the award-winning author of eight books, including Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez and When Law Was in the Holster: The Frontier Life of Bob Paul. Might be good to have a doctor look at YOU sometime. : In April 1906, Hamer did just that, and for the next two years, he served under Captain J. H. Rogers in the Company C that patrolled the border in south Texas. Meanwhile, Frank Hamer and the rest had arrived in Norias. In a bloody coup led by General Victoriano Huerta, Madero was assassinated. : But I think both are eclipsed in scope and research by Boesseneker’s Texas Ranger: the Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde. Henry Barrow Henry Barrow The defenders first thought the approach- ing horsemen were raiders, until Lauro Cavazos recognized Tom Tate’s voice. Frank Hamer was active and energetic but seriously deficient in leadership. Carrying a battle flag and commanded by Luis de la Rosa and at least one Carranza officer, they planned to wreck and rob a train at Norias. One of Ferguson’s first acts was his refusal to reappoint Ranger Captain John R. Hughes, the legendary “Border Boss,” and the last of the “Four Great Captains.” Although Ferguson’s stated reason was Hughes’s age— sixty—in fact he intended to pack the Rangers with political supporters. : Fox later recalled, “In a dark room of one shack we stumbled over the body of a dead Mexican woman, and in the road outside we found a horribly wounded Mexican man.” Next to the corpse of Manuela Flores they found several terrified section hands and their wives huddled together. Gordon Hill’s father, Lon, who arrived on a special train with Sheriff Vann soon after the battle ended, also talked with Garcia, who told him, “Now, you all will kill me, and I want you to tell my folks that I am killed.” Based on these accounts, Jose Garcia is often considered to have been murdered by Texas Rangers. Hamer worked in his father's blacksmith shop and later as a wrangler on the ranch of Barry Ketchum. Deputy Ted Hinton Bursting inside, he was stopped cold by a horrendous sight. By FBI. With Captain Fox at his side, Frank Hamer approached the bullet-riddled linemen’s shack. Frank Hamer, The Lynch Mob Tamer In the summer of 1908, lynch mobs plagued Texas, and Ranger Hamer was at the forefront of stopping them. Frank Hamer Territory lost in the Mexican War—Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and California—would be “freed” and annexed to Mexico. Frank Hamer Ironically, the Rangers had nothing to do with killing the raiders. Hamer… They are damned bandits!”, President Carranza in La Cañada, Querétaro, 22 January 1916. John Boessenecker, author of TEXAS RANGER: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde, a San Francisco trial lawyer and former police officer, is considered one of the leading authorities on crime and law enforcement in the Old West. Six other states were to be given to blacks as an independent nation, a buffer region between Mexico and the United States. You ever think maybe there was something in Clyde... that made him steal that chicken in the first place? Maybe we were all hungry. He had long served as a deputy sheriff and constable in Austin, where in 1902 he shot and killed a black prisoner attempting to escape. Reliable Mexicans and Americans who saw them recognized several members of the band as having lived in the northern part of this county for years.”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FrankHamerEarly1920s.jpg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BydQmNM7aJ0. "Frank" Hamer, Texas Ranger Captain Frank Hamer (pronounced Hay-mer) was born on March 17, 1884 in Fairview, Wilson County, Texas.He grew up on the Welch Ranch in San Saba County. Company Credits Three of his brothers also became Texas Rangers. Because I was covering you. Meanwhile, the three wounded defenders were carried into the ranch house. Sixty bandoleer-draped riders, armed with Mauser rifles, were closing fast. The defenders, afraid of hitting railroad hands in the section house, did not fire at it. In 1914, he became a deputy sheriff in Kimble County and served as the department's livestock theft investigator. : : The second pivotal event was one of the most infamous in Texas history—the Plan of San Diego. Technical Specs, [Frank and Maney are sitting at a table in a coffee shop in Coffeyville, Kansas on the lookout for Bonnie and Clyde. I met my wife she was milking a prize Devon at the Oklahoma State Fair, I can't imagine anybody writing a ballad about that encounter. The loudmouthed Captain Ransom began to lecture the defenders on how they should have conducted the battle. : She and her brother had faced charges for Sims’s murder in 1916. I'm trying to say something. Undated photo. That night, August 6, a posse led by General Hutchings and Captain Ransom shot and killed three suspected raiders on the McAllen ranch near Paso Real. All plan members must be Hispanic, black, or Japanese, and they would carry a white battle flag with red fringe. [Describing his son, Clyde Barrow, as a child and youngster]  At a range of forty yards, Pinkie Taylor shot and killed the leader, and the attack faltered. After a crucial defeat by Pancho Villa two months later, Huerta resigned the presidency and went into exile. Frank Hamer had joined Company B at just the right time. That what you mean? Gault is eating a slice of cake and Frank's drinking a cup of coffee]. General Huerta served as president for one year, during which time he was violently opposed by Venustiano Carranza, a politician and rancher. Frank Hamer swung up the barrel of his Winchester and shoved open the door. Caesar Kleberg, manager of the huge King ranch, and political boss Jim Wells wired Adjutant General Henry Hutchings in Austin, urging him to come personally. Maney Gault : And if you go any further down the roster I'm gonna be gravely offended. That what you mean? They looted the two general stores, then captured an Anglo farmer and his son and shot them to death. Their hunt lasted about three months before Barrow and Parker were killed in May. In the 1930s, he was employed by various oil companies and shippers as a strike breaker. He's dead. On May 23, 1934, Hamer and his posse gunned down Bonnie and Clyde on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. His father was a blacksmith and Hamer worked with him while growing up. Every North American male over sixteen would be put to death. An hour later, Frank Hamer and the rest of the Rangers, oblivious to the battle, returned to Norias. The young troopers, with only ninety rounds per man, carefully chose their targets. At that, Pinkie Taylor exploded: “Listen—we were here—we did not get a man killed—we were here when they came, we were here when they left, and we are still here, and I don’t know what you all would have done if you had been here, but I do know there was not a goddamn son of a bitch of you here!”. Runyon also took several photographs of Captain Fox, Tom Tate, and other lawmen with their lariats tied around three dead bodies as they prepared to drag them across the prairie. Extremely modest and humble, Frank Hamer left behind but scant correspondence and no diaries or journals. It might be good to have a doctor look at you sometime. Image is in the public domain via Wikimedia.com. Hell I don't know... Sixteen I think. According to Lauro Cavazos, he and another King Ranch cowboy came up with the idea of dragging the bodies to a nearby sandbank, where they could easily be interred in a mass grave. Frank Hamer I had high hopes. A hundred yards south stood a railroad section house, and just across the tracks was a toolshed and a pile of cross ties. But Texas lawmen took the Plan of San Diego very seriously, as did many impoverished, disaffected Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley. Oh, you mean one turn on the trail, huh? Dogged him or watched him? Nearby, they discovered a white battle flag emblazoned with a large letter E. The badly wounded raider gave his name as Jose Garcia and said he was from San Benito, Texas. Impressed by his tracking skills, the local sheriff suggested him to join the Rangers. In 1918, State Representative José Tomás Canales was helming an investigation into the alleged abuse of the residents of the Rio Grande Valley by several Rangers. Now, Runyon unlimbered his heavy camera and took numerous photos, including the Norias ranch head- quarters and the six uninjured troopers standing on the front porch.

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