We were fast leaving the wild and barren border.

Already it seemed far beyond that broken rugged horizon with its dark line silhouetted against the rosy and golden sky.

Already the spell of its wild life and the grim and haunting faces had begun to fade out of my memory.

Let newer Rangers, with less to lose, and with the call in their hearts, go on with our work 'till soon that wild border would be safe! The great Lone Star State must work out its destiny.

Some distant day, in the fulness of time, what place the Rangers had in that destiny would be history.
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