Unmasking the Texas Ranger Mythos
Date: October 9, 2024
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Kirby Warnock’s Border Bandits
(a film screening)
Honoring Raza Heritage
sponsored by NVC Mexican American Studies
Wednesday, October 9 - 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Location: Manzanillo Hall (MZH) Innovation Center
Synopsis:
In 1915 a group of Mexican banditos raided the McAllen Ranch, one of the largest in the area. The next day a group of Texas Rangers supposedly arrived and eliminated the perpetrators. However, the real story is not as tidy as it has been portrayed. Roland Warnock, a 19-year-old cowboy working on the Guadalupe Ranch near present-day Edinburg, witnessed two of these killings when he saw Texas Rangers from Company D shoot two unarmed men in the back and leave their bodies by the side of the road. The effects of these killings by the Rangers are being felt in south Texas some 80 years later.
—Kirby Warnock
Additional Resources:
To learn more about this topic, visit the Life and Death on the
Border, 1910-1920 exhibition, on display at the Northwest Vista
College library from September 16 to October 31.
For more details, contact:
Dr. Corina González-Stout:
cgonzalez-stout@alamo.edu