Strong to the Bone--A Caitlin Strong Novel by Jon Land

Author:Jon Land
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

PART SIX

Captain R. A. “Bob” Crowder transferred to the Ranger force from the DPS Bureau of Intelligence in 1939. In 1955 the inmates at Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane rioted and took hostages, giving Crowder a chance to live up to the “One riot, one Ranger” legend. Alone, Crowder walked into the maximum security unit to meet with the leader of the riot. The two men exchanged words, and within an hour, the riot was over and the hostages were freed. Before Crowder agreed to enter the building, however, the Ranger talked to the lead inmate on the phone and informed him that, although he was coming in alone, he would have a Colt .45 on each hip. “I want to tell you one thing,” said Crowder. “I’m not comin’ in unarmed because you’ve already got three people over there as hostages and I don’t want to be the fourth one—and I’m not going to be. I just want to tell you this. If somethin’ goes amiss, I know who’s going to fall first.”

—“Lone on the Range: Texas Lawmen” by Jesse Sublett, Texas Monthly, December 31, 1969

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