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Texas officially entered into the United States in 1846, which also started the Mexican War when the U.S. attempted to develop the border at the Rio Grande. During the 2 year affair, the  Texas Rangers  were gotten in touch with to help the American Army and quickly accomplished around the world fame as a combating force.

Having no main function, the Rangers quickly lost a number of its popular captains and frontier defenders. A years later on in the Spring of 1858, they briefly saw combat again when they were sent north to the Red River to settle a band of  Comanche Indians. After Texas withdrawed from the United States throughout the Civil War in 1861, an organization was developed in Houston, called Terry's Texas Rangers.

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Painting of a Texas Ranger by Hermon Adams Throughout the restoration duration of 1865-1873, the Rangers were designated as state authorities. A dark duration in their history, they were charged with enforcing undesirable new laws that came with rejoining the United States. Among the war-weary Texans, the Rangers fell into disrepute.

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However, when searching down hooligans, they functioned more as lawmen and posses. Their function changed once again in Might 1874, when the state Democrats returned to power and Governor Richard Coke, together with the Legislature, appropriated $75,000 to arrange six companies of 75 Rangers each. By this time, Texas was overrun with criminals, Indians damaging the western frontier, and Mexican bandits pillaging and murdering along the Rio Grande.

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During this age, the Ranger Service held a location somewhere between that of an army and a cops force. In 1877, the Texas Rangers discovered themselves on the criminal path, pursuing  John Wesley Hardin. Hardin, who had actually eliminated Charles Webb, a deputy sheriff in Brown County in 1874, left the state when he started to be relentlessly pursued.

Lastly capturing up with the notorious hooligan on a train in Pensacola, Florida, the unavoidable shoot out took place. When the smoke cleared, Hardin had been knocked unconscious, among his gang members killed and the rest were jailed on July 23, 1877. Stagecoach Robbery by Phil Lear In the spring of 1878,  Sam Bass and his gang held up 2 stagecoaches and four trains within 25 miles of Dallas.