On January 28, 1918, Company B of the Texas Rangers along with 4 local ranchmen and a US armny unit descended into the small town of Porvenir, Texas. They woke up the 140 residents and separated the men and boys from the women, younger children and elderly, then proceeded to gun down the able bodied men and boys over 14. This is known today as the Porvenir Massacre and took place during the ten year period called the Hour of Blood or La Matanza.

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Sources: 

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Munoz Martinez
The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands by Nicholas Villanueva
https://www.porvenirmassacre.org/https://thc.texas.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/Porvenir_Marker_01.jpg
https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/artifacts/harry-warren-porvenir-notebook-spotlight-1-1-19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division#Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum
https://thc.texas.gov/blog/remembering-porvenir-massacre
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/15/texas-rangers-racist-violent-history/
https://www.texasobserver.org/century-porvenir-massacre-remembering-one-texas-darkest-days/
https://www.texasranger.org/Pages/History/Timeline#section-4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_County,_Texas
https://refusingtoforget.org/chico-cano/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canales_Investigation
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