This placement made it easier to draw while riding a horse. The wearing of badges became more common in the late 1800s. Historians have suggested several reasons for the lack of the regular use of a badge; among them, some Rangers felt a shiny badge was a tempting target. Other historians have speculated there was no real need to show a badge to a hostile Native American or outlaw. Additionally, from a historical viewpoint, a Ranger's pay was so scanty that the money required for such fancy accoutrements was rarely available. Nevertheless, some Rangers did wear badges, and the first of these appeared around 1875. They were locally made and varied considerably from one to another, but they invariably represented a star cut from a Mexican silver coin (usually a five-peso coin). The design is reminiscent of Texas's Lone Star flag. Although present-day Rangers wear the familiar "star in a wheel" badge, it was adopted officially only recently. The current design of the Rangers' badge was incorporated in 1962, when Ranger Hardy L. Purvis and his mother donated enough Mexican five-peso coins to the DPS to provide badges for all 62 Rangers who were working at that time as commissioned officers. Since the establishment of the Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Rangers Division, 124 Rangers have died in the line of duty. The following list also contains officers from the Texas Rangers, which was merged into the Texas Department of Public Safety. The causes of death are as follows:  Numerous films and television series focus closely or loosely on the Texas Rangers. In addition, the Texas Rangers baseball team, when it relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in 1972, took its name from the force. "The Miracle Rider" (1935), a Western serial, had Tom Mix play Tom Morgan, a Texas Ranger who protects the Ravenhead reservation from Zaharoff, a greedy arms dealer. "Tales of the Texas Rangers", a Western procedural radio program that ran on NBC from 1950 to 1951, starred Joel McCrea, and was described as "Dragnet" with a Western flavor, and dealt with Ranger investigations in the 1930s and 1940s. The program was adapted to television in the mid-'50s as a Saturday morning juvenile Western, again on NBC, including contemporary stories as well as stories from the old West. The 1957–1959 CBS western series "Trackdown", starring Robert Culp as the fictional Ranger Hoby Gilman, even carried the official endorsement of the Rangers and the State of Texas. "Trackdown" episodes were set in both fictional and real locations in Texas, though the series itself was filmed at the former Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California.