Captain Jack: The Story of John Coffee Hays - HCHC Documentary Series

CAPTAIN JACK covers 15 scenes from Jack Hays' life, from his arrival in Texas and meeting President San Houston in 1838, recruiting rangers in San Antonio, fighting Comanches, the Mexican War, leading a wagon train to California during the gold rush, being elected the first sheriff of San Francisco and developing the City of Oakland.
Hays County in Texas is named in his honor.
Produced by Kate Johnson
Directed by Richard Kidd
Written by Gene Shelton
Narrated by R. W. Elliott
Music by The Celtaire String Band and The Gillette Brothers
Hays County Historical Commission ©2009
Video Chapters:
0:00 Title - Texas 1837
0:56 Meeting with Sam Houston
3:36 Forming the Texas Rangers
5:21 Patrolling South Texas
7:38 Surveying the Frontier
9:23 Susan Calvert
10:58 Walker's Creek Indian Battle - 1844
13:53 The Mexican War - 1846-1848
17:18 The Battle of Monterrey - 1846
18:47 California Dreamin' - 1848
19:41 Wagon Train to California - 1849
20:56 Sheriff to Surveyor General
22:41 Mathew Brady Photography
24:01 Captain Jack's Legacy
25:07 Credits

[@troysullivan1908]

My middle name is coffee. I was always told that it was the only request that my biological mother to my adopting parents. I was told that my middle name had historical value, but I never did any research until recently. Turns out that john coffee hays is my great (x3) biological grandfather. I didn't know the connection with the walker colt though... that is very interesting, because I am a gunsmith!

[@gerd9126]

My middle name is John..

[@texaspatty4697]

I was glad to see this video biography of Jack Hayes. I first learned of him in another video, and was so impressed that he taught his Rangers to shoot from horseback, and that he trained and drilled them in prep for all they would do in the future.

[@BWIL2515]

Very well done thank you

[@logancarter2134]

I'm a fifth generation Texan and have always been entralled with it's history. I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation! Many thanks for sharing it.

[@johnschuh8616]

Could they not find an actor who looked like Hays? Hays was about twenty when he came to Texas and slightly built, Surprised that Audie Murphy never made a film about him. He would have been a perfect fit.

[@leojablonski2309]

Alan Ladd

[@johnschuh8616]

@@leojablonski2309 Did Alan Ladd ever play Hays?

[@fryertuck6496]

His "Mrs" was nothing like the described girl as well.

[@SKaR64]

No, we could not. Is facial exactitude really what you think is important in making a film? How about being able to act like an 1840s Texas ranger, ride a horse at full speed, while firing a period pistol and providing your own horse and wardrobe for little pay. We did the best we could with the limited resources and budget. It sounds like you know nothing about the 2009 film industry in Texas, but perhaps you can start your education with the films of Richard D. Kidd (who died recently) and Kate Johnson of the Hays County Historical Commission. There are other little issues with this film that would have been worthy of your sarcasm, but they creep in like gremlins in any system. ~ Sloan

[@johnschuh8616]

@@SKaR64 You don’t use stunt men any more? Anyway. I wasn’t being sarcastic, and it just occurred to me that with a little facial hair Audie Murphy would have been a good fit for most of that work. Or was the Hollywood of that day not interested in realism? Murphy had a devil getting the producers to get things military right. Maybe he was he who held them back on the heroism. No one would believe what he did that day on the tank destroyer. And since Murphy had so little schooling , although was from Texas , he himself might have been totally unaware of this earlier day hero.

[@gerd9126]

scottish legend like most of the Rangers

[@4_kingss]

My great grand fathers name and grandfather name is Jack hays, I live in bexar county San Antonio and my relatives are from Tennessee. I’m a relative

[@somedudes1]

I'm a direct descendent woot woot what a savage dude

[@pilotjett]

Some well fed settlers.

[@jeffbybee5207]

Thought it was going to be about the pirate bully hays

[@dp7933]

That was weird. The documentary commentary was "slender brunet", then she was played by a juicy woman (very attractive-- better than slender).