Of the Texas Rangers, what CAN be said is that they merely followed standard wilderness travelling procedures for moving though country where danger was expected. The same sort of things that men, women and children all over this continent had been doing forever.
Only us would make a production out of this.
Birdwatcher
I dunno, Mike. The fact that the duly constituted military authorities repeatedly sent large infantry units as well as standard (i.e., heavy dragoon) cavalry units out to fight the plains Indians despite repeated and documented failures using these tactics suggests the Ranger way was not orthodox by any means.
