**The explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made
up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless
frontier.
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Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Texas Ranger Company F,
was engaged in three fatal gunfights, endured disfiguring bullet wounds,
engaged in countless manhunts, was convicted of second-degree murder,
and rattled Washington, D.C. with a request for a pardon from the US
president. His story anchors the tale of Joe Pappalardo's Red Sky
Morning, an epic saga of lawmen and criminals set in Texas during the
waning years of the "Old West."
Alongside Brooks were the Rangers of Company F, who ranged from a pious
teetotaler to a cowboy fleeing retribution for killing a man. They were
all led by Captain William Scott, who cut his teeth as a freelance
undercover informant but was facing the end of his Ranger career.
Company F hunted criminals across Texas and beyond, killing them as
needed, and were confident they could bring anyone to "Ranger justice."
But Brooks' men met their match in the Conner family, East Texas master
hunters and jailbreakers who were wanted for their part in a bloody
family feud.
The full story of Company F's showdown with the Conner family is finally
being told, with long-dead voices heard for the first time. This truly
hidden history paints the grim picture of neighbors and relatives
becoming snitches and bounty hunters, and a company of Texas Rangers who
waded into the conflict only to find themselves in over their heads -
and in the fight of their lives.
