Cooke County, Texas The following account is from the book, Passionate Nation, The Epic History of Texas, by James L. Haley. Violence in North Texas reached its zenith in Cooke County on the Red River, and in its seat, Gainesville. Security there...
Llano County, Texas A.D. Hamlin Bluffs Indian With a Stick During the first year of the Civil War, A.D. Hamlin, after selling his store at the old salt works in Llano County, about four miles west of Bluffton, started to Burnet and points beyond. A...
Tarrant County, Texas Satank Kiowa Raid on Walnut Creek Historical Marker Marker Title: Kiowa Raid on Walnut Creek Address: FM 730 & SH 199 intersection City: Azle Year Marker Erected: 1983 Marker Location: FM 730 R.O.W. East side, about .75 W...
Parker County, Texas August 10, 1863, Parson J.J. Hamilton, a Christian minister, who lived on Patrick's creek, about nine miles south of Weatherford, sent his sons, Wm. and Stewart, to the parson's tannery, to air the hides. Just before noon, when...
Clay County, Texas Wichita County, Texas During 1868, while Geo. Halsell and Pete Hardin were working for the Waggoner "outfit", they were charged by a large band of Indians. Hardin hurriedly hid under the bank, but Halsell riding a good...
San Saba County, Texas Early during 1864, Beardy Hall, who lived about two and one-half miles east and a little north of the present town of Richland Springs in San Saba County, started alone to San Saba. Mr. Hall was only armed with a six-shooter...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Topics (click on a topic to jump to that section) Indians Ambush Hale on Ioni | Hale's Exciting Chase South of Mineral Wells | Indian Fight, about Eight or Nine Miles North and East of Strawn Indians Ambush W.J. Hale on Ioni...
Montague County, Texas D.S. and Marion Hagler were camped under a large post oak tree about one mile north of Forrestburg in Montague County, early in June, 1858. They had thirty-five horses staked in the flats nearby; two saddles hanging over their...
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