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RANGERS AND SOVEREIGNTY.
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After the frontier of Texas was practically freed
from Indian depredations, there was a turn of thought
in the direction of building homes, and utilizing the
vast domain gained by that long and sore struggle,
which could not be claimed by the Frontier battalion,
except in a sense of sustaining the ground work of
greater men, that had left that field in the care of the
sons of Texas. The 13th legislature, and succeeding
legislatures took hold of the work like patriots and
statesmen and maintained the Battalion as zealously
as if they were in the field themselves. Their hearts
were there, and willing hands were extended to us,
who were in the midst of the work. I have often
thought, that the bonds of friendship, so closely woven
between the old Texans were knit in the struggles
of war, where mutual help brought out the brotherhood
of man, and the true love of home and family to an
extent that few people realize. The lot of our mothers
were cast with our fathers, and their sons and
daughters, and taking the whole family, made a unit
in the aggregate of Texas loyalty. Loyalty to Texas,
was semi-loyalty to the new born Republic of the
United States. The escutcheon on the breast of the
American Eagle, was their ideal, in the realm of fu
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Roberts, Dan W. Rangers and sovereignty, book, 1914; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5833/m1/150/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.