b'Rangers continued from page 19would become the wife of Comanche Chief Peta Nocona and sire him three children, one being the famed and fearsome Chief Quanah Parker.Williamson\'s tenure as the leader of the Rangers didn\'t even last one year, as the Texan leadership, recognizing his organizational skills, appointed him to an administrative post in the embryonic government. But he had led the way that others, including the wild, young, impetuous Tennessean John Coffee "Jack" Hays, the older, much more sober-minded Samuel Walker, and an old crony of Davy Crockett\'s who almost always regretted not fighting and dying along with his close friend at the Alamo - until his death as a Confederate general at the Battle of Pea Ridge, the balding, ambitious but oft MY FAMILY AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A WARMfrustrated Ben McCulloch, would follow and in doing so, would carve a glorious path WELCOME TO ALL. INSIDE, YOU WILL FIND A WIDEfor the Rangers.ASSORTMENT OF PASTRIES, SANDWICHES ANDA GUN FOR AMERICA: SAMUEL HOMEMADE HOT MEALS! WALKER, SAMUEL COLT, JACK COFFEE HAYS, AND THEMEXICAN WAR The first decade following the birth of the Texas Republic was a decade of massacres, failed filibusters (not the political kind but those of military adventures against Mexico that often ended in miserable defeat and worse, the execution of captured Texans), frustration, and missed opportunities for both Gueros Deli & Market was established in July of 2021 in Texas and the Texas Rangers, who, while never Wickenburg, Arizona to honor my father, Richard Abril. He was not onlybeing involved in the various filibustering my dad, he was an entrepreneur, very generous and so appropriatelyexpeditions as a unit, did witness many of their Proverbs 22:1 describes him best: Choose a good reputation over greatrecruits and even some of their ex-officers riches; Being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold.being involved in them, especially the fiasco at Mier. The Rangers themselves were involved My parents first business venture was a Grocery and Market in one notable failed opportunity, the battle located in Phoenix on 17th Ave and Linden. As the oldest of 7 children,of Plum Creek in 1840 when a 200 men force I wanted for all to know who my father was. He left us with a legacy of La Canasta Mexican Foods which is currently operating in itsof militia and Rangers led by a rival of SamSamuel Walkerthird generation of family. When you enter into Gueros you will seeHouston\'s, General Felix Huston, surprised a a mural depicting the businesses that came from his hard work andComanche force three times their size at Plum determination. Guero served in the Navy and fought for this GreatCreek and routed them. However, Huston, perhaps mindful of the overwhelming odds United States of America, Home of the Free and the Brave.against him and his ammunition shortage, failed to press a pursuit that could very well have signaled the annihilation of the Comanches (or his own annihilation) and broke off, leaving the frontier open for at least another 35 years of Comanche raids, burned settlements, scores of mutilated bodies, and Texan reprisal.But to say that the Rangers failed to use this time to develop as a crack, cohesive force to be reckoned with would be a falsehood of the highest degree. Led by men like the clean-shaven Walker, a veteran of U.S. Army service (and a survivor of the failed Mier expedition) and by Hays, the young, bearded family friend of Sam Houston\'s and a relative by marriage to then American President Andrew Jackson, new aggressive recruits began to fill their ranks, including men who learned from the ways of the Indian and used them to their advantage, including expert scouting and tracking, riding hard at night, hiding out in the hill country and attacking the unsuspecting Comanche at the crack of dawn. Knowing that the possible survival of their own families against Mention this ad and receiveraids by Indians, brigands, and Mexicans depended on their successes - or failures - 2 Free Drinksthey also were inspired to develop an esprit de corps - to be an elite unit that would stand out from the rest of the various militias that protected Texas in the years that preceded Annexation. And courtesy of Samuel Walker, they would create a firearm that with any 2 breakfast, lunchwould revolutionize the frontier and warfare in general - the Six-Shooter Colt.or dinner combinations! War with Mexico was inevitable when an outgoing President John Tyler formally approved the annexation of Mexico in the waning days of 1845. The incoming president, James Polk, was an expansionist who was elected in great part for his strong views favoring what would become known as "Manifest Destiny." Skirmishes between Bienvenidos U.S. and Mexican forces broke out into a full-scale war when the Mexicans ambushed Welcome to the Original La Canasta, owned and operated by the an American patrol - in Texas territory - near the Rio Grande, and the Rangers, now Abril family. We hope you enjoy our fine Mexican food, tradition formed into a regiment and seeking to avenge the dead of the Alamo, Goliad, and the that has been in our families kitchens for generations. Our family Mier Expedition, rode southward under the command of the firebrand Hays and his recipes were developed by Richard and Carmen Abril and have been subordinate, the older, more experienced Walker. The Rangers stormed into Monterrey favored since 1962. We look forward to serving you Arizonas finest on September 19, 1846, just ahead of General Zachary Taylor\'s advancing American Mexican food from our family to yours. Army, and in a fierce street battle lasting three days, gunfire blazing from house to house as Taylor\'s artillery shelled the town, Monterey was captured with light casualties Two Great Locations to Serve You! among the Americans, scores of dead and wounded Mexicans.Wickenburg Phoenix The Rangers prepared to move southward when word came in of an armistice. Mindful 2023 W Wickenburg Way 2501 W Van Buren of the inadequacies of the Texan firearms, state officials used the time to send Hays and Hours: 8am-7pm Hours: 6am-6pm Walker to Washington.Hays to confer with President Polk, another old family friend, and Walker to meet with the noted gun designer and manufacturer Samuel Colt in Call In Your Orders To Go! New York, whom he had begun a correspondence the previous year about the state and needs of the Ranger armory. Walker had long been dissatisfied by one-shot revolvers Wickenburg: 928-415-0031Phoenix: 602-278-7097 and using the previous Colt Paterson design he had come up with an idea for a multi-shot gun. Would Colt be interested? He was. 20 November 2021'