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Texas Rangers is a 2001 United States drama/western film directed by Steve Miner. It is about a group of Texas Rangers set in the post-American Civil War era, rated PG-13.
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) to recommission a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. Aside from a few seasoned veterans, the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime. The antagonist of the story is John King Fisher (Alfred Molina) who is stealing cattle from Texas cattle barons like Richard Dukes and Victor Logan and driving them into Mexico, where he sells them to the Mexican army.
After McNelly and his men pursue Fisher for a while, they fall into a trap, where many of the young and ill-trained Rangers are killed. Defeated and low on morale, the men fall back to a ranch house and attempt to set up an ambush for Fisher. After being double crossed by a woman (perhaps unwittingly), the rangers remain one step behind Fisher and his men. Two of the Rangers follow Fisher and his men to the Mexican border, where they wait for the rest of their company. Once the entire Ranger force arrives, they plan their final attack. In a final gun-slinging showdown, the Rangers face off against Fisher and his men that will either tip the state of the border country in the direction of either chaos or justice.
Actors: Post Park (actor), Tex Ritter (actor), Gene Alsace (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Victor Adamson (actor), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Bob Card (actor), Buzz Barton (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Jack Roper (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western,Come all ye Texas Rangers wherever you may be.
I'll tell you of some troubles that happened unto me.
My name is nothing extra, so that I will not tell.
And here's to all you Rangers, I'm sure I wish you
well.
Was at the age of seventeen I joined the jolly band.
We marched from San Antonio down to the Ryo Grande.
Our Captain, he informed us, perhaps he thought it
right,
"Before we reach the station boys, you'll surely have
to fight."
And when the bugle sounded our Captain gave command.
"To arms, to arms" he shouted, "and by your horses
stand!"
I saw the smoke ascending; it seemed to reach the sky.
And then the thought it struck me, my time had come to
die.
We saw the Indians coming, I heard them give a yell.
My feelings at that moment no human tongue can tell.
We saw their glittering lances, their arrows 'round us
flew.
And all my strength had left me, and all my courage
too.
We fought for nine hours fully, before the strife was
o'er.
The like of dead and wounded, I never saw before.
And when the sun had risen, and the Indians they had
fled.
We loaded up our rifles and counted up our dead.
And all of us were wounded, our noble Captain slain.
The sun was shining sadly across that bloody plain.
Sixteen the [of?] braver Rangers as ever roamed the
west,
Were buried by their comrades with arrows in their
breast.
And now my song is ended, I guess I've sung enough.
The life of any Ranger you see is very tough.
And if you've got a Mother that don't want you to roam