1817 – 1847 Samuel Hamilton Walker – Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. The Original Walker Texas Ranger

Walker Texas Ranger

The Original Walker Texas Ranger Samuel H. Walker

– Texas Rangers Hall of Fame Waco Texas

– Walker County, Texas, was renamed after him.

– Samuel Hamilton Walker was an American army officer. He served as a Texas Ranger captain and officer of the Republic of Texas and the United States armies. Walker served in several armed conflicts, including the American Indian Wars and the Mexican–American War

– Co-Inventor of the Walker Colt Revolver. The Walker Colt was created in the mid-1840s in a collaboration between Texas Ranger Lt. Col. Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817–1847) and American firearms inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862), building upon the earlier Colt Paterson design. Walker wanted a handgun that was extremely powerful at close range.

– Caught and Escaped twice by the Mexican General Santa Anna. Walker was captured on December 26, 1842, and marched to Mexico City as a prisoner of war. He survived what became known as the Black Bean Episode and was held prisoner for two years before he escaped to Louisiana and returned to Texas.

– Mexican American War

– Famous Comanche Battle at Walker Creek Texas. In 1844 Walker joined John C. Hays’s company of Texas Rangers and participated in the battle of Walker’s Creek near the junction of Walker’s Creek and West Sister Creek northwest of present-day Sisterdale in Kendall County. During the engagement the rangers, using new Colt revolvers, successfully defeated about eighty Comanches.

– Seminole War Florida and worked as a scout in Florida until 1841.

– It’s said that Walker was not a man you would much notice in everyday life. He was of average size, and quiet. But in battle he was a lion. In his Notes of the Mexican War 1846-1848, J. Jacob Oswandel observed of Walker that ‘’war was his element, the bivouac his delight, and the battlefield his playground.”

Walker lived more in his short life than your average ten men live in their long lives combined. He is the Walker, Texas Ranger, that should be most remembered.

Samuel Walker: The Real ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ | Texas Standard

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