Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881 Jeanne C. Watson Cool Rides offers a rare

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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881 Jeanne C. Watson Cool Rides offers a rareIn 1874, the Texas legislature created the Frontier Battalion, the first formal, budgeted organization as an arm of state government of what historically had been periodic groups loosely referred to as Texas Rangers. Initially created to combat the menace of repeated raids of Indians from the north and from Mexico into frontier counties, the Battalion was led by an unusual choice: a frail, humorless Confederate veteran from Navarro County, John B.