𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗦 𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗟𝗬𝗗𝗘, 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗧 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗦𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘

 submitted by Rene Torres

Frank Hamer was a Ranger off and on throughout his adult life, resigning often to take other jobs. He joined Captain John H. Rogers' Company C in Alpine, Texas, on April 21, 1906, and began patrolling the Mexican border. In 1908, he resigned from the Rangers to become the City Marshal of Navasota, Texas, a lawless boom-town wracked by violence; "shootouts on the main street were so frequent that in two years at least a hundred men died." Hamer moved in at age 24 and enforced law and order. In 1911, he moved to Houston to work as a special investigator for Mayor Horace Baldwin Rice, where he was seconded to the Sheriff's Office of Harris County. In 1914, he was hired as a deputy sheriff in Kimble County, assigned as the department's livestock theft investigator.

Frank Hamer in 1922

Hamer rejoined the Rangers in 1915 and was assigned to patrol the South Texas border around Brownsville during the Bandit War and La Matanza. The Rangers dealt with arms smugglers because of the constant unrest in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. They also tried to control the bootleggers during the Prohibition era and bandits who plagued the border. He left the Rangers and was commissioned as a Special Ranger for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

Source: Wikipedia