Lee Trimble: Texas Ranger

by Jim Wilson

One of my favorite friends from years past was Texas Ranger Lee Trimble. Lee was born LaFetra Elisha Trimble on September 29, 1892, in Globe, Arizona Territory. He never said much about his early life but, by 1917, he was a cowboy on the Brite Ranch, south of Valentine, in the Big Bend country of West Texas. When the ranch was raided by Mexican bandits on Christmas Day, 1917, Lee was in El Paso, possibly on vacation leave for the holidays. A few months following the raid, Lee joined the Texas Rangers and began a lifelong career in law enforcement, livestock theft investigation, and industrial security. I was a pallbearer at his funeral in 1985.

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