The Bloody Origins of the Texas Rangers

the Joe Rogan experience I thought it was hilarious too that they wanted him to not have so many wives they didn't wanted to have the wives and they didn't want a half hit that you know the braids the long long braids I didn't didn't like that didn't like the wives he wanted things his own way he also played politics brilliantly he mean he understood from the early going that that quote the chief of the Comanches was going to be appointed by the commander at Fort Sill you know it wasn't just gonna happen and there were all sorts of candidates jostling for this and he made sure that it was him that didn't make him any less the leader of his tribe it didn't make him any less of an independent person who the white men had to deal with but he made sure he had that one buttoned up and he was challenged continuously I mean there was there were continuous challenge to him it's interesting historically that you don't hear about him and the Comanches when it played such a significant part in taking over the West and settling the West you hear about Crazy Horse you hear about Sitting Bull you hear about the the Sioux and the Apaches you don't hear that much about the Comanches and you don't hear much about Quanah Parker no it was one of the great pleasures of writing this book is that the these were largely unknown things I mean if you Quanah was one of them another another discovery was you know every we all know about certain people running around San Antonio in the 1830s je Davy Crockett would come to mind but we don't know about Jack Hayes the world's greatest you know the Ranger the guy who sort of invented this anti Comanche warfare invented the repeating you know he first needed an invent but he first used the repeating five-shot pistol and then of course had a hand in the invention of the six-shooter but you everybody should know who Jack Hayes is everybody should know I mean Kawana was I mean Geronimo is Geronimo and he's famous largely for one particular particular breakout in the late 19th century but you know Quanah was arguably the greater man in in the reservation period and I mean Geronimo in some ways was kind of a was kind of a curmudgeon yeah that was another part that I wanted to get to was Jack Hayes and the creation of the Texas were so we think of the Texas Rangers today we think of like Chuck Norris yeah you know you really don't realize that they were essentially a group that was created to effectively combat the Comanche exactly that's where they came from it's amazing the story when when you talk about how it took like sort of several iterations of these guys both before they figured out how to do it right and the the guys that came out there essentially a lot like like a lot of depictions of Navy SEALs like renegades yeah like wild rugged rebels and there they are there's the original Texas Rangers is that Jack Hayes in their military various there's Jack aces well the lightest picture that's him that's yes oh hey so the thing was of okay San Antonio in the 1830s late 1830s you have you have about 2,000 residents it's the kind of thing out the final outpost on the frontier and what what's happening is Texas which now owns the Texas which now owns Texas having won its independence is giving out what they call head rights so if you want to get ahead right meaning free land so all you had to do to get your free land outside of San Antonio was go survey the land so I had to do and you had it you know home and so the surveyors would go out and survey it and the Comanches would kill them in ever more imaginative ways because the Comanches understood exactly that the instruments did steal the land the instruments were the mechanism of the theft of the land from them and so part of the deal was to keep how can you keep your surveyors alive and hayes was originally a surveyor but he eventually just got good at keeping other surveyors alive and these guys who could do that eventually became known as Rangers and they evolved as Comanche fighters you know fighting like Comanches did I mean they learned bird signs to track people they would you know make cold camps I mean you never made a warm you never made a campfire if you were around Comanches I mean they would they would they learned these these techniques and techniques of Worf there and they got really good at it they've just had this one problem and the problem was that they had three shots yet Kentucky long rifle bang a and two single-shot pistols and that's all they had against Comanches who I would encourage all of your listeners to go and and look up this guy Lars Anderson on the Internet yeah he's the he's the Bo guy yeah okay so in him of what he what he proved among other he went back and he just researched it and a lot of the things that I frankly found hard to believe about Comanches once I saw the Anderson videos you believe them yes Anderson can I think it's ten arrows in five seconds he there's no such thing as a quiver you're holding it as a bunch in your harm here I mean but all these things that we you know we heard that the Comanches could do underneath the horse's neck and rapidity of fire and no one's ever Comanches never stood in one place and closed one eye as shot and they never once did that they were moving both eyes open anyway look at the Anderson video it's really cool but what that meant was that Jack Hayes and the Rangers were in an enormous disadvantage you know and then lo and behold he well cut to the East Coast this inventor named Samuel Colt had come up in the in the early 1830s with a prototype of a it was a it was a really ingenious little pistol it was a five shot pistol made and eventually made in Paterson New Jersey and it is right there yeah is that the Paterson colt there's a five shot chamber that was popping up with the same guy so yeah doesn't look like open anyway it's a five shot it's a five shot thing with with revolving cylinders and as a great idea right absolutely nobody wanted it I mean it was it was like a sidearm for cavalry but the US didn't have a cavalry so it didn't really work out for some reason Mirabeau Lamar the president of Texas ordered a hundred and eighty of these things and they can they found their way to Texas the five-shot Patterson Colts and somehow Jack Hayes and his guys found out about them and they got a of them they trained with him and they immediately understood what it meant it meant equalizing the warfare against the Comanches it meant because now they had they had a five shots or one interchangeable cylinder now ten ten shots in Eastern pistol now so in close hand combat the world changed and and not only did that world change but eventually everybody was so stunned by what by this development that the US government ordered a lot of what ended up being Walker called six shooters for the Mexican war cult becomes one of the richest men in America and basically Jack Hazen Rangers redefined warfare which is which is and people said this about Jack Hayes and it's broadly speaking true before Jack Hayes you know people came into the West on foot carrying a Kentucky long rifle and after Jack Hayes they came mounted and carrying a six-shooter yeah that was the other thing that was really shocking was that the US soldiers would try to get off their horse to engage right right because they didn't think you fought mount the only people who fought mounted were the Plains Indians I mean you know nobody thought you've the fighting mounted was not something anybody did if you if you used a horse you used it in the Dragoon Way which is you would ride to where you were gonna fight get off the horse and then fight but Comanches were fully mounted and Rangers were fully mounted and what they what they used the Texas Rangers for in the Mexican War which is they were there was this terrible guerrilla problems and these Rangers just went and cleared out these whole areas and nobody had seen this type of warfare before nobody had seen this kind of ability to fight and move and move mounted and move with these well and nobody had ever seen these what these Walker cult sees five pound hand cannon six shooters that they had nobody had seen those either and so these crazy these these Rangers that dressed any way they wanted to you know sometimes with no shirts on and Serapis and crazy hats I mean there was just the Rangers there everybody was scared to death of it [Applause]

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Published: Tue Dec 10 2019