Summary of Joe Pappalardo's Red Sky Morning

By IRB Media

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#1 The Texas Rangers are a special force of law enforcement officers who patrol the Texas Frontier. They are led by a Sergeant, and each man is responsible for a specific task. They are professional but not urgent.

#2 Texas Rangers are a special force of law enforcement officers who patrol the Texas Frontier. They are led by a Sergeant, and each man is responsible for a specific task. They are professional but not urgent.

#3 The Texas Rangers are a special force of law enforcement officers who patrol the Texas Frontier. They are led by a Sergeant, and each man is responsible for a specific task. They are professional but not urgent.

#4 The young man Brooks leaves Kentucky for Texas in 1876. He finds work as a cow pugger, miner, gold speculator, and ranch hand, but nothing sticks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031218

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The trio of Texas Rangers wake in their temporary campsite in the Washita Valley, inside the Indian Territories. They handle this Saturday morning’s work the same way Rangers always do: with each man responsible for a specific task.

#2

The ranger company was sent to track down two horse thieves, and when they returned, they were ordered to go into the Indian Territories and bring back either the mules or the money.

#3

The Indian Territories were a big moneymaker for ranchers, and the threat of lease licenses and illegal settlements hung over the operations. The territories reminded Brooks of the raw and wild edge being dulled by stock farming and barbed wire elsewhere.

#4

Jim Brooks grew up in Kentucky, and when the Civil War broke out, his father died in 1863. The freed slaves stayed on to work the Brookses’ farm, and Brooks knew that when he turned 21 in November 1876, he would be leaving Kentucky.

#5

Brooks is a private in 1880, and he is scouring the spreading web of train lines that year, seeking opportunity in the boomtowns that spring up along these routes. He aims for the town of Cotulla, and his fateful January 1883 meeting with Lieutenant Charles McKinney.

#6

The rowdy town of Cotulla, Texas, hardens Brooks, who never kills anyone. His reputation as a tough man grows quickly in the Rangers’ ranks and on the streets.

#7

The town of Alex, Oklahoma, was a collection of frontier settlements scattered in proximity to the road connecting Chickasha and Erin Springs. It was a crude, remote outpost in Chickasaw territory. The area was no Cotulla, but its isolation bred little respect for the law.

#8

The Indian Police agent, Red Alexander, saw the dark-haired cowboy enter his store in Alex, and he was sure that the man was not there to buy anything. He warned the cowboy not to carry weapons in town, but he did it anyway.

#9

The older men walked into the store, and Putz followed them inside. So much for a quiet Saturday afternoon.

#10

Albert St. John, a