Name/Title
Ranger [Cover]Description
Herman Maul hand painted cover of a “The Quick Draw”. Postmarked on April 29, 1947 in Ranger, Texas and mailed to avid Texas philatelic collector Walter Jarrett in Abilene, Texas.Context
Ranger, on Interstate Highway 20 between Abilene and Fort Worth in northeastern Eastland County, derived its name from the Texas Rangers, who in the 1870s had a camp in a valley about two miles northeast of Ranger on a prong of Palo Pinto Creek. This camp would have been at the south end of the present Hagaman Lake, earlier the Watson Ranch.