Texas Ranger James Hawkins By western author Nick Brumby "Don't mess with Texas, boy, it's the last mistake you'll ever make."* This is Texas Ranger James Hawkins, circa 1875. And that's a stare that would stop a bullet dead in its tracks. James Hawkins enlisted in Company D of the Rangers in Blanco in 1874 under Captain Rufus Perry and rode with most

Colonel George Custer By western author Nick Brumby "There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry." - Col. George Custer Custer and his chief scout, Bloody Knife, consult a map of Sioux country on their first campaign together in 1873. Custer's two Russian wolfhounds lay sprawled at his feet. Bloody Knife was half Sioux and half Arikara. The