Cal English Texas Ranger

Cal English Texas Ranger Review

At age sixteen he had been a drifter every since that deadly shootout at an Abilene, Texas saloon. The shooting left his stepfather who he thought of as his Pa dead. Four assassins killed by his hand with two wounded from his deadly swiftness with the forty-four. Unaware that he would not be hunted by the law he hastily left the town on his stepfather’s horse never to return.
His name is Cal English whom some call ‘The Death Dealer’. He is six feet-two-inches tall, with a lean sinuous body, dark black hair and brown eyes. Most young women thought of him as dangerous first and handsome second. However, in his lifetime he never had the luxury to indulge himself in the opposite sex. The only extent of time he was ever around a woman near his age that he thought was attractive and wished for a different life was the one short year he spent with the Jesus Brito’s family and his beautiful daughter Alheli. No one knew who Cal was so he had managed a few short blissful months that passed ever so fast before he was recognized. After a shootout in the local saloon that left his identifier dead he left the Britos and headed south.
Cal, like a rattlesnake was viciously fast an a natural with the side draw of the pearl-handled forty four he carried holstered on his left side with the handle pointed out toward his right hand. He’d used it successfully much too often. His swiftness with the pistol was what brought him to a point in his life that Major Johns B. Jones of The Texas Rangers found him at Round Rock, Texas and offered him a new way of life. After the life he’d led Major Jones made him and offer he could not refuse.
Cal remembered the day he met Major Jones and if not for that day he would still be a gunslinger drifting from one place to another belonging to no one and no one giving a damn to what happened to him until finally someone faster with a gun would end his wandering. You might say Major Jones would be his salvation or the originator of his demise. Cal wasn’t sure yet which it would be. But, on the day he met him his life changed. He hired Cal on the spot to become a Texas Ranger and to help him and his rangers bring Cherokee Bob with his band of rustlers along the Nueces Strip to justice.
Cal along with Pony Deal and Red Jack Sloan did just that resulting in a shootout that left Cherokee Bob and three of his chieftain’s dead.
Fifteen dead men and eight years have passed swiftly since the time Cal English, ‘The Death Dealer’, left Abilene and now the year is Tuesday June 3, 1879. It was only the day before that he received orders from Major Jones Commander of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers of his new assignment.
Cal was to go to Palo Duro Canyon a few miles from Canyon Texas. There he was to ride into the Canyon and meet up with Lance Arrister the overseer and part owner of the LA Ranch. He would inform Cal on what was happening to the wholesale slaughter of the remaining Buffalo in that area since the Indian wars had ended a few years before. Cal’s mission was to do whatever he could to bring a closure to the killing. If he needed outside help he was to contact Major Jones at once. Cal didn’t figure he’d need no help.