Texas Rangers is a 2001 United States drama/western film directed by Steve Miner. It is about a group of Texas Rangers set in the post-American Civil War era.
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns o...
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Texas Rangers is a 2001 United States drama/western film directed by Steve Miner. It is about a group of Texas Rangers set in the post-American Civil War era.
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime. The antagonist of the story is John King Fisher (Alfred Molina) who is stealing cattle, killing the young rangers and fleeing into Mexico.
After McNelly and his men pursue Fisher for a while, they fall into a trap, where many of the young and ill-trained rangers are killed. Defeated and low on morale, the men fall back to a ranch house and attempt to set up an ambush for Fisher. After being double crossed by a woman (perhaps unwittingly), the rangers remain one step behind Fisher and his men. Two of the rangers follow Fisher...
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