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Resources available at the
THE TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
AND ARCHIVES
Austin, Texas
The Texas State Library
and Archives has service records on some (not all) Texas Rangers from
1836-1935. The indexed records do not cover the era 1823-1836 or 1935-Present.
Please refer questions about their holdings to their staff.
The State Library
and Archives will copy the contents of specific files referenced in
their index for a copy fee (see their site below for details). They
do not offer a search service. If you desire more detailed research,
they can refer you to commercial researchers with whom you can contract,
or, staff time permitting, they will render assistance free-of-charge
on site in Austin. An appointment is recommended.
Click
here for the Adjutant General Records page
where you can search for a name. If successful, you will find reference
to one or more specific files that you can order from the library. They
will not read the contents of the file over the phone or e-mail it to
you.
Please be aware
that the list contains several branches of service.
The following are
generally considered to have served as Texas Rangers:
R.R. - Regular
Rangers
F.B. - Frontier Battalion
F.F. - Frontier Forces
M.M. - Minute Men
M.V. - Mounted Volunteers
Branches of Service NOT considered Texas Rangers:
In general, the
following are NOT considered "real" or "regular"
Texas Rangers by most historians. They were were issued Special Ranger
commissions as a convenience to give them state authority and wide geographic
jurisdiction. The majority were privately paid by cattlemen's associations,
oil companies or railroads. They had no company assignments or place
in the regular Texas Ranger chain-of-command.
RRR - Railroad
Rangers (railroad detectives)
LR - Loyalty Rangers
(a mass induction of Special Rangers authorized during border
scares in World War I)
SR - Special Rangers
(lawmen from other agencies, oil company and cattle company security)
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