A group of Texas lawmen that includes Tom White (No. 12) and
his three brothers, Doc (No. 6), Dudley (No. 7), and Coley (No. 13)
Credit 44Tom, chastened, retrieved his rifle, and it was not long before he
understood the sergeant’s urgency: they were being tracked by the
rustlers. They had to dodge being shot several times before they
finally arrested the gang.
Tom became increasingly adept at dealing with what he called
“rascality”: cow rustlers, horse thieves, scalawags, pimps,
rumrunners, stagecoach robbers, desperadoes, and other human
transgressors. When he was sent with another Ranger, Oscar
Roundtree, to clean up the lawless town of Bowie, a pastor wrote
to White’s captain, saying that he had witnessed “the lawless
element completely driven from our town by the two Rangers you
sent here.”