Borger @ Pampa

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:moo: Down 29-7 at the start of the 4th quarter, the Borger Bulldogs stun the homecoming crowd at Pampa, 36-35.

..................1.....2.....3.....4.........F
Borger......0.....0.....7...29.......36
Pampa....14....3...12......6.......35

:moo: Did I mention that SunnyBrook graduated from Pampa HS?

[SunnyBrook]

Grrrr! and yes...that is all the response needed here.

[Kathy30]

Borger - Pampa, it's been many a year, or many a decade since I heard those names. My ex-husband was from that area, he was from LeFors, which I don't think is there anymore. I think it was taken by a tornado. He had relatives that lived and still do, in Pampa.

[Lubbock]

LP, there is a great book by Robert Utley, "Lone Star Lawmen; The Second Century of the Texas Rangers," with a wonderful account of how and why the Texas Rangers were sent into Borger to clean it up. It chronicles the Boomtowns --of which Borger was one, and what a sewer those towns were during the Boomtown Days.

I had an old cowboy uncle who was around in those parts up there when Frank Hamer was striding down the wooden sidewalks of Borger with his six-gun drawn.

I'm just now starting Utley's chronicle of The Rangers before Statehood. [Doing it backwards.]

The politics of the Rangers and why they still exist almost beats anyting we've got going today on the national scene.

The Garrison Rangers was of most interest to me. The Garrison Rangers forward.

A great companion book is, "One Ranger," by Joaquin Jackson. A truly personal account of one Texas Ranger.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:moo: LeFors is still there. I once had an interview scheduled there, but it got cancelled. I think they changed their mascot from Pirates to Bandits.

:moo: Were the Garrison Rangers from Garrison in Nacogdoches County?

[Lubbock]

No. The "Garrison" Rangers refers to Homer Garrison, and goes back to the days when the State Legislature was playing politics with the Rangers; a faction wanted the Ranges eliminaed.

Homer Garrison was appointed head of DPS; DPS was on the side of eliminating he Rangers altogether; Garrison kept the Rangers and the Ranger Tradition, and made them mesh with "modern" law enforcement.

Had it not been for Homer Garrison, the Rangers would have ceased to exist.

[This may be interesting only to me because I come from a family of Texas Men who carried guns for a living.]

And going back to Utley's prequal to Lone Star Lawmen, talk about your Border Patrol . . .

Lone Star Lawmen is interesting. Lone Star Justice is hair-raising.

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