Question: What city’s newspapers published a series of 23 letters providing a firsthand account of life as a Texas Ranger in the 1870s?
Answer: Austin’s Statesman and Gazette published Thomas C. Robinson’s contributions between April 26, 1874, and March 31, 1876. Robinson authored the letters under the name Pidge, describing his escapades subduing a family feud in DeWitt County and fighting raiders along the Rio Grande.
