Jack of Harts

The Houston riots ravaged most of downtown Houston during the Second Great Depression. The mayor ordered the police to leave the “peaceful protesters” alone, and one of the largest cities in America burned in the riots that followed. The State of Texas had many calls for its attention, but it did send a Texas Ranger to Houston when Bludworth Marine asked for help to secure its facilities. The man lived up to the old tradition of “One Riot, One Ranger.” He deputized the dockworkers to protect them from local prosecution, and then led the posse that stopped the rioters short of the docks, yards, warehouses, and other infrastructure that ran up and down Houston’s massive waterfront. The Republic of Texas would use that to build Naval Station Houston into the single largest military naval reservation in all of Texas.