USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Thus, the Texas Rangers were born. Unsatisfied with the protection the Mexican government provided, Stephen F. Austin created his own force of “rangers” to protect the men and women living in his colony.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1823, probably more than 600 to 700 people were in Texas, hardy colonists from the various portions of the United States at that time, who settled not far from the Gulf of Mexico. There was no regular army to protect them, so Austin called the citizens together and organized a group to provide the needed protection.

Detailed explanation-3: -Austin, Texas, U.S. The Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F. Austin in a call-to-arms written in 1823. After a decade, on August 10, 1835, Daniel Parker introduced a resolution to the Permanent Council creating a body of rangers to protect the Mexican border.

Detailed explanation-4: -But after winning their revolutionary war with Mexico the following year, Texans decided to keep the Rangers, both to defend against Native Americans and Mexicans and to serve as the principal law enforcement authority along the sparsely populated Texan frontier.

Detailed explanation-5: -They fought their last fight with Native Americans in January 1881 in far west Texas. There were still local battles to be fought. From 1894 to 1895, the Rangers scouted 173, 381 miles, made over 600 arrests, returned over 2, 000 heads of stolen livestock to the owners, assisted local law enforcement, and guarded jails.