Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten

Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D of the Texas Rangers during the transition from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unit—and Aten—would have a lively time making their mark in nineteenth-century Texas. The years Ira spent as a Ranger are jam-packed with adventure, border troubles, shoot-outs, solving major crimes—a quadruple homicide—and manhunts. Aten’s role in these and epochal Texas events such as the racially inse