Historic Cowboy: Just A Ranger From West Texas

Chip Schweiger
6 min readJul 14, 2019

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Whenever I talk to anyone about my involvement with the Former Texas Rangers Foundation, the conversation invariably turns to one of the most iconic representations of one of the most iconic organizations of the American West, the Texas Rangers. And, that iconic image is of Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson, replete with a ranger’s cinco peso star badge, double rig gun belt, weathered chaps, and holding a…

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Chip Schweiger

I’m the CPA who writes about the American West, and the cowboys who feed a nation.