THE TEXAS RANGERS I came from Texas, like the bulk of you punchers, but a good while before the most of you were born.

That was forty-odd years ago--and I've been on the Colorado River ever since.

That's why they call me Colorado Rogers.

About a dozen of us came out together.

We had all been Texas Rangers, but when the war broke out we were out of a job.
We none of us cared much for the Johnny Rebs, and still less for the Yanks, so we struck overland for the West, with the idea of hitting the California diggings.
Well, we got switched off one way and another.