Description:
This book contains a series of anecdotes about Lewis Rigler's life, focusing on his time as a law enforcement officer in Texas. He discusses his life growing up, various cases that he worked on as a Texas Ranger, and general observations that he gained from his job. Index starts on page 181.
Date:
1995
Creator:
Rigler, Lewis C., 1914- & Rigler, Judyth Wagner
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about U. Simpson Tate's telegrams, from Dallas, Texas, to Governor Shivers and President Eisenhower, calling for help in getting African American students safely into Texarkana Junior College.
Date:
September 10, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Captain Tom Hickman, a Texas Ranger and retired peace officer, and his trip on horseback to Waco.
Date:
September 20, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story by reporter Boyd Matson about legacy of Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker in Fort Parker, Texas and Cache, Oklahoma. The story focuses on the family reunions held in Fort Parker and Cache and reenactments of the story of Cynthia Ann's abduction by Comanches and recapture by the Texas Rangers. Baldwin Parker, great grandson of Quanah, Cora Parker Shaw, and Jack Selden are interviewed about their family legacy. The…
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Date:
August 11, 1983
Duration:
4 minutes 40 seconds
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Photograph of a historic marker in Colorado City. It reads: "The Founding of Colorado City. Founded, 1880, at the crossing of the Colorado River and Texas & Pacific Railroad right-of-way: central shipping point and supply depot for the sprawling cattle ranches of west Texas and New Mexico. From 1880 (when A. W. Dunn opened his dirt-floor. Tent-roof General Store) to 1890. The boisterous cattle town garnered notoriety as well as fame. The largest community between Fort Worth and El Paso. Colorad…
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Description:
Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Orin Curtis Dowe and Millie Wilson Dowe of Pinto Canyon, who met while O. C. Dowe was a Texas Ranger attempting to capture smugglers crossing the Mexico-Texas border.
Description:
Photograph of a group of Texas Rangers in Valentine, Texas. Three of the men are sitting in a wagon pulled by horses, and the other three are riding horses. The first horse rider from the left is O. C. Dowe, Millie Wilson's husband.
Description:
Photograph of O. C. Dowe standing in an open field next to two men with three jugs and a small barrel in front of them. A handwritten note on the front of the photo identifies Dowe, and indicates that the other men are bootleggers.
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Burleson feed store owner losing a portion of his building after Johnson County officials route the path of a new highway interchange through his property.
Date:
May 29, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tom Hickman, a retired Texas Ranger who visits Tarrant County to ride in a parade.
Date:
January 24, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tom Hickman, a retired Texas Ranger, who takes a ride in a Bell Aircraft helicopter.
Date:
January 26, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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