Monday, May 25, 2015 – Set Those Recording Devices and Remember the Alamo!
Set those recording devices! Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!
“Texas Our Texas” – All hail the mighty state…Texas Rising is on TV tonight!
Texas Rising is a five-night series event which details the Texas Revolution and the rise of the Texas Rangers on the History Channel at 8:00 PM Central Time.
http://www.history.com/shows/texas-rising
Remember when we all rushed home to watch the mini-series Roots? Note: to techno generations – There was no technology. VCRs were still fighting over VHS and Beta formats and had not reached yet critical mass. We were literally still watching television when the program was aired. But I digress.
Here is a little something, I bet you did not know. My sister and I have no idea the reason our father, HB, received this. BTW – Oh Sister, Where Art Thou?
Special Texas Ranger Badge, two ID cards and card from Texas Ranger Museum
When I took it to the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco, they were unfamiliar with it, but verified its authenticity as a product of the Texas Rangers.
http://www.texasranger.org/index.htm
The two cards are signed by Homer Garrison, Jr. Colonel Garrison became director of the Department of Public Safety and chief of the Texas Rangers in 1938.
A Google of Colonel Garrison takes you the Texas State Historical Commission’s site.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fga34
In looking at the site the bibliography caught my attention.
Ben Procter, “The Texas Rangers: An Overview,” in The Texas Heritage, ed. Ben Procter and Archie P. McDonald (St. Louis: Forum, 1980). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
How many Lumberjacks took history from Archie P. McDonald?
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