Couple of things. First, in years gone by, you had to be one bad SOB to make Ranger and basically had to have killed someone to get there (really, you had to have smoked someone). Now, at least around here, the Rangers are the whiniest, laziest SOB's on the planet and are not worthy of an ounce of the credibility their namesake implies.
Second, yes it is true many Rangers were surveyors (or at least worked on a crew), there was a helluva lot of surveying going on in Texas WAY before the Texas Ranger was invented. In my county alone we have surveys going back to 1806 (thirty years before independence.) In Nacogdoches county, the Chirino survey was initially surveyed in the 1770's but didn't get titled until 1820 something. All of which predate the Rangers.
I'd be more scared of the Texas Rangers ball-club than the REAL Texas Rangers.
The last good Texas Ranger was Chuck Norris.
The legend of it takes only one Ranger to handle any situation is tough to live up to these days.
The only good thing about being a Ranger is that their degree of Lawman is above any other lawman in Texas and they take the lead over any other agency.
Now, some of the Game Wardens are the real deal. With advancement they will eventually go thru training that is top notch outside of the military.
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> The last good Texas Ranger was Chuck Norris.
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> The legend of it takes only one Ranger to handle any situation is tough to live up to these days.
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> The only good thing about being a Ranger is that their degree of Lawman is above any other lawman in Texas and they take the lead over any other agency.
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> Now, some of the Game Wardens are the real deal. With advancement they will eventually go thru training that is top notch outside of the military.
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Well now you've done it.
Since it was you who opened the door, this is of course, your fault entirely.
If you get a chance, go to the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco Texas and see the display of equipement and learn the history of the Texas Ranger and the surveying they did.
They were out on the front lines of the old west. And if you want to go futher in doing some research, stop by the GLO ( General Land Office ) in downtown Austin and learn some even more by reading the field notes. Not sure any surveyors today could do what they did back then !