Just got through reading a book about the Texas Rangers...........

[clarice]

Anecdote from the book....

In a town in West Texas in the 1800's, there was an uprising, nay, more of a riot involving
various dastardly dudes from the Mexican bandit-os and an outlaw Cherokee tribe.

The Mayor of the Town, contacted the Capital in Austin requesting help from the Texas Rangers.
When the train pulled in, the Mayor was there to welcome the cadre of Rangers. Off of the train stepped one
Ranger ......Captain Bill McDonald.
The Mayor asked incredulously "Only one Ranger?!"

Bill McDonald replied.."Well you only got one riot"

Thus the Ranger slogan "One riot....one Ranger."

Needless to say....he "cleared things up"

[Ilsa]

1. I remember that slogan, "One riot, one Ranger."

Tough hombres.

[clarice]

4. Yup.....but little known is that they also HELPED many people. nt

[Xipe Totec]

2. Los Pinches Rinches

The corrido "Los Rinches de Texas" is a typical example of inter-racial tension and "rinche" violence that occurred on the Lower Rio Grande border. Rinche violence was experienced by many Texas-Mexicans in this area, and the corrido draws attention to this violence. In stanza two, the third line, "there was blood spilled" already indicates the type of violence the Rangers inflicted on the people. In this corrido, the farmworkers are the victims of sever brutality. We have two examples of innocent victims according to the corrido, Magdaleno Dímas and Benjamín Rodríguez. The two main speech events of these characters show that the violence was inflicted on them. Dímas says in stanza five, "I did not resist them. Frightened and helpless, they beat me without conscience." In the speech event by Rodríguez we see the typical insult of the rinches that occurs in corridos dealing with racial tension, the term "coward" when referring to the Anglo Rangers. Another issue, which I feel is important, is the negative attitude towards the governor. The corridista is strongly says that the governor is an evil ruler, who is prejudice against Mexicans. He also states in the third to last stanza that the governor wants to protect the melons of the rich ranchers, rather than the people. I think that the corrido is trying to show the attitude of the community towards the violence, which shows the outrage of the events, which are still protected by the governor. It uses this outrage to propose joining the union. The importance of this corrido is to show the injustice that is occurring along the border, but to also get the Mexicans to stand up for their rights because it is apparent that the governor is not going to stand up for them.

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/jaime/cwp2/ccg/los_rinches_de_texas.html

[clarice]

3. That is certainly the other side of coin....

Sorry, I didn't mean to start another border war.

[UTUSN]

5. EWww, how *could* you (start border war), = of all the beings born, why McDONALD for you?!1

from The Brownsville Raid by John D. WEAVER, paperback, 1973, p. 80::

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But in Texas the story was splashed across the front pages, which made it inevitable that Captain Bill McDonald of the Texs Rangers should bob up in Brownville, packing a pair of six-shooters and an automatic shotgun. In the history of the Texas Rangers no one had ever moved more swiftly to capture a horse thief or a headline than Captain McDonald. ...the characterization of the Ranger Captain given him by Harbert Davenport, a Brownsville antiquarian. "I have never found a Border man who had the slightest respect for Bill McDonald," Davenport had written. "He was, to them, a troublemaker, an advertiser, a teller of tales of which he was himself the hero, inclined to act -- and act violently -- on false or doubtful information, vain, and self-important. ....

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From, Taking on Theodore ROOSEVELT by Harry LEMBECK, hardback, 2015, p 84:


*******QUOTE*******

Enter Captain William "Bill" McDonald of the Texas Rangers, who arrived in Brownsville with the anger, bitterness, and aggressiveness that led south Texans to say he would charge hell with one bucket of water. And with no sense. Bill McDonald brought to Brownsville, its mayor, and the army a "good deal of trouble." Of all the rabble-rousers in the Brownsville Incident, none was more dangerous than Ranger McDonald, who came to town to show the locals how Negroes should be dealt with and, possibly only incidentally, to prove the black soldiers were guilty. Deciding on his own that Brownsville needed his skills .... ...he had no authority to investigate the army. .... ...he showed up with a battery of pistols ostentatiously strapped to him on a big belt. If these were insufficiently protective, McDonald also had a knife....

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Anyway, I'll re-read the O.P. and other posts to quell my mystification about why this TOTAL JERK should pop up here, a mixture of HANNITY/O'REILLY/CRUZ/TRUMP/ ad infinitum. I'm really curious as to the reason, the attraction... sincerely so.

[clarice]

6. Because I think he was cute. nt