True stories of the Arizona rangers around 1900. Captain Rynning and several of his Rangers join a posse to smoke out the remnants of Luke Baxter's gang. The outlaws momentarily give the posse the slip and double back to take refuge in a mission school run for the reservation's Indian children and hold the priests and the youngsters as hostages. Director: Oliver Drake Writer: Oliver Drake Tristram Coffin as Capt. Tom Rynning Kelo Henderson as Ranger Clint Travis Jim Davis as Father Diego Initially broadcast April 23, 1958. 26 Men is a an American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.