As rebels on foot and horseback fired on the defenders from two sides, the raiders in the section house rained bullets on the soldiers. The defenders, afraid of hitting railroad hands in the section house, did not fire at it. Lauro Cavazos managed to shoot the horse out from underneath one of the rebel leaders. Meanwhile, the three wounded defenders were carried into the ranch house. Several attackers got caught behind a barbed wire cattle fence east of the tracks and were shot down by the defenders. Seeing that the raiders could not get past the fence, the rest of the defenders rushed inside the ranch house and returned the fire from doors and windows. The young troopers, with only ninety rounds per man, carefully chose their targets. The black cook, Albert Edmunds, crawled out the door to a telephone hanging on an outside wall. Amidst the shattering roar of gunfire, he managed to reach Caesar Kleberg in Kingsville, told him of the raid, and begged for help. Then, braving the fire, Edmunds crawled from one defender to another, bringing each of them water. While the man was drinking, Edmunds took over his rifle and fired at the marauders.
The Norias Ranch Raid occurred during the "bandit wars" that took place from 1912 through 1915 along the Texas-Mexico border. At dusk on August 8, 1915, a band of Mexicans rode into the southern end of the sprawling King Ranch and attacked the Norias division headquarters, located on the railroad about seventy miles north of Brownsville. Earlier that afternoon, in response to a call from Caesar Kleberg at Kingsville concerning Mexican horsemen in the Sauz division, Texas adjutant general Henry Hutchings,Texas Ranger captains Henry Ransom, J. M. Fox, and George J. Head, as well as ten rangers, and a corporal and seven cavalrymen stationed at Harlingen, arrived at Norias on a special train from Brownsville. They left the soldiers, then hurried by horseback to the Sauz pasture. The regular train reached Norias near sundown with three customs inspectors-D. P. Gay, Joe Taylor, and Marcus Hinds-and Cameron County deputy sheriff Gordon Hill. There were now sixteen men at the headquarters. At dusk Hinds saw horsemen approaching and thought they were Texas Rangers returning from patrol. When they were about 250 yards away, the horsemen, carrying a red flag, began firing at the ranchhouse. The besieged took cover behind the railroad embankment near the section house and returned fire. Albert, the cook, telephoned Kingsville for help.
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The number of raiders was variously reported as anywhere from fifty to seventy men. Ranchhands Pedro Longorio, Luis Solis, and Macario Longorio said later that around two A.M. at the King Ranch Cerritos headquarters, fifty-two outlaws forced them to water and feed their horses. They reported that Antonio Roche and Dario Morada led the group. Another report said that Luis de la Rosa commanded a force of about fifteen men and had joined with a band of twenty-five. The raiders forced Manuel Rincones, a King Ranch employee, to guide them. At nightfall, after two hours of fighting, the raiders suddenly stopped firing and vanished into the darkness. They had broken into the section house and killed Manuela Flores. George Forbes, Frank Martin, and two soldiers were wounded. Some five or more raiders were killed and perhaps a dozen wounded. A wounded bandit said later that they expected to find only three or four cowboys at the headquarters. They planned to rob the ranch store, derail and loot the night train, and burn the ranchhouse. The Norias raid provoked outrage in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Mexican banditry escalated, and the United States Army promptly increased its presence in the area to curb the violence.
Smoking and the BanditSeason 9, Episode 12Air dateApril 17, 2005Written byDan McGrathDirected byCyndi Tang-LovelandEpisode guidePreviousNextRedcorn Gambles With His FutureGone With the Windstorm
Smoking and the Bandit is the one hundred-eighty-third episode of King of the Hill. It was first aired on April 17, 2005. The episode was written by Dan McGrath, and directed by Cyndi Tang-Loveland.
He then made his way to Goliad, Texas where he was soon arrested for breaking into a house. He was sent to prison but pardoned just four months later. Moving on to Dimmit County, he established a ranch in an area where cattle rustling was rampant. Before long, Fisher was right in the middle of it, with his ranch serving as a haven for drifters and outlaws. He was sometimes known to ride with Mexican rustlers, sometimes making off with as many as 100 head of cattle. His outlaw activities often led to violence, and he quickly gained a reputation as a skilled gunfighter. He was arrested at various times by Texas Rangers Leander McNelly and Lee Hall but always managed to avoid conviction. Evidently, by 1876, Fisher had his fill of the outlaw life, married, and bought a ranch near Eagle Pass.
It was, accordingly, a historic civic event in Ranger on January 4, 1991, when carloads of lawmen, a modern-day posse, wheeled into town to arrest Steven Benifiel. They claimed he was the kingpin of one of the largest methamphetamine drug rings in West Texas. They said that he was so powerful that his ring included the sheriff of the county and a highly decorated Department of Public Safety trooper.
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_OC_InitNavbar("child_node":["title":"My library","url":" =114584440181414684107\u0026source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list","id":"my_library","collapsed":true,"title":"My History","url":"","id":"my_history","collapsed":true,"title":"Books on Google Play","url":" ","id":"ebookstore","collapsed":true],"highlighted_node_id":"");The Bandit King: Lampiao of BrazilBilly Jaynes ChandlerTexas A&M University Press, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 288 pages 1 ReviewReviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identifiedWhat Jesse James was to the United States, Lampião was to Brazil, and then some. With a band that at times numbered a hundred or more, this notorious bandit confronted state armies on more than equal terms and cowed political bosses, virtually dominating large sections of his native northeastern backlands during the 1920s and 1930s. Although Lampião was often brutal and merciless, his occasional acts of compassion, together with his exploits, have made him a folk figure in Brazil.Based on contemporary news accounts, archival materials, and extensive interviews by the author, this book presents the first systematic and reliable account of the famed desperado.Examining Lampião's career from his boyhood in Pernambuco to his death at Angicos, Chandler sorts fact from fiction and places the bandit in the context of the backlands, where in the early part of this century becoming acangaceiro (bandit) was as natural and attractive to the son of a tenant or small farmer as taking a degree in law or medicine was for the sons of the Recife or Salvador elite. Chandler sees Lampião and othercangaceiros as the inevitable products of a lawless society in which frontier conditions reminiscent of the American West persisted far into the twentieth century. What people are saying - Write a reviewReviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identifiedLibraryThing ReviewUser Review - Gantois - LibraryThingThe story of a brazilian Robin Hood who lived in the interior - the sertao - of Nort Eastern Brazil. He died at the end of the thirties, killed in a police ambush. Fascinating biography of colourfull social bandits. Read full review
At about 11:20 a.m., the man entered the credit union, approached a teller, and inquired about making a withdrawal from his account. He then pulled out a silver pistol and pointed it at the teller, demanding money. The teller turned over some cash. The bandit took the money and fled on foot into a residential neighborhood. No one was physically hurt during the robbery.
The little white house that the bandit drives towards is not the red roof house you have posted. The red roof house is the house you see when the rig pulls in the driveway, but the white house was tore down. Email me if you want pics to clarify.
Mexicans were left with no safety or protection by law enforcement. In September 1915 when a band of armed Mexican men stole supplies and horses from their ranch (no one was harmed), Jesus Bazán and his son-in-law Antonio Longoria were torn about what to do. Reporting the theft could make them targets of the assailants, but if authorities found the raiders with their horses, the family could be accused of assisting bandits. Either choice could result in violence.
Paulino Serda was a small ranch owner near Edinburg, Texas, in 1915 when a group of Mexican bandits came through town. They demanded he open the gates that connected the ranches so the group could pass.
To design their dream hotel, the Mengers hired a local architect by the name of John M. Fries. On February 1, 1859, the hotel was completed: it was a two-story stone-cut structure with classical details. The interior, if at all possible, was even more breathtaking.
The Menger received so much attention that within three months of the grand opening, William and Mary began to sketch out a plan to expand the hotel. What had started out as a fifty-room hotel, then became a hotel of ninety guest rooms, making it the largest hotel in the area.
All of the guests were urged to evacuate the premises, thanks to a night clerk who realized that there was even a fire at all. In the dead of night, he scurried to each room, rapping on doors and waking the guests. Apparently, one guest reacted with such complete hysteria that he pushed the poor night clerk down the stairs. (For any inquiring minds wanting to know, the clerk was not seriously injured). 2ff7e9595c
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