TEXAS RANGER DISPATCH Magazine shots, striking Joe in the left arm then all three stormed the house, taking them hostage. That calm was shattered in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 27, 1997, when two men and one woman suddenly attacked the home of Joe and Margaret Rowe. The quiet is one of the reasons so many people love the sparsely settled area. Barry Cave The West Texas desert around Fort Davis can be -and usually is-quiet. Joe and Margaret Rowe's Ranch ©2004 Capt. This was a scam he had learned from the Freemen in Montana. In an effort to carry out his warped plan, McLaren began a paper war in which he flooded local courthouses with self-styled legal documents, filing liens against the personal possessions of government officials and others. This included half of New Mexico and parts of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming.
By March 1996, he had become so brazen that he declared that the so-called independent nation was demanding control of all the original land owned by the Republic of Texas. By 1995, McLaren was representing himself as the ambassador and general counsel of the provisional government of the Republic of Texas (ROT). Thus, Texas was not a state in the United States but an independent, sovereign nation. In his twisted mind, he believed that Texas had been illegally annexed into the Union in 1845. TEXAS RANGER DISPATCH MagazineRangers Today Research Center Hall of Fame Student Help Family History News Visitor Info History Click Here for Captain Barry Caver A Complete Index on the Republic of Texas Standoffto All Back Issues Part 1of 2 Dispatch Home by Captain Barry Caver Visit our nonprofit with Robert Nieman Museum Store! It all started in the early 1990s when Richard Contact the Editor McLaren began to organize a group of anti- government extremists in an effort to overthrow the state government. OAll content ©2009, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum. To simplify archiving them, these issues have beenstored in Adobe Acrobat format.Links to other parts of the original web site appear but no longerfunction.There may also be some minor appearance and formattingissues with the individual pages.Newer issues of the Texas Ranger Dispatch are in magazineformat in Adobe Acrobat.
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