Originally Posted by
Rex G
As I keep working my way through the Boessenecker book, I am realizing how much I had skipped, during my first time through it, which was before seeing the Highwaymen movie. I am now reading the part of his Ranger career, when he was Captain Hamer, during the Governor Hobby era. I am also realizing just how much of a composite character that Woody Harrelson’s Maney Gault actually is, as so many things, done by so many different Rangers, along the border, have been written into Harrelson’s part.
One thing for certain, is that the movie’s “Candelario” is also highly fictionalized, taking elements from multiple incidents, only one of which, it seems, involved then-Sergeant Frank Hamer. This, in effect, makes the screen play’s Frank Hamer a composite character, though far less composite than Maney Gault’s character.
Thus far, I have not found that Frank Hamer was ever at a place called Candelario, and the part I am reading is past the “Bandit War” era. I am not finding a Candelario, to be a place name, in the USA, or in the border regions of Mexico, using the map app in this iPad.