Back to Blood Trails Recently Republic of Texas Press released Stephen L. Moore's Savage Frontier; Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume I and Clay Perkins, author of The Fort in Fort Worth recommended it to me. Once I got my hands on...
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Mason County, Texas Those interviewed differ considerably concerning the date of this difficulty. Nevertheless, this particular fight will be related at this particular time. The Indians had been stealing horses in Mason County. So J.M. Bolt, Henry...
Tarrant County, Texas Within a year of the Battle of Stone Houses, other Ranger companies entered the Trinity Valley. Captains Sloan and Journey brought their Fannin County Rangers in the spring of 1838. In the fall, General Jonathan Dyer, commander...
Jack County, Texas Gus and Silas Morrow, sons of James Morrow, who lived on the west fork of the Trinity, about thirteen miles east of Jacksboro were clearing timber about one-half mile south of their home. When they went to their work early in the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 3 October 1854; Eagle Pass, Texas: When Lipan Apaches stole stock and attacked travelers east of the Rio Grande, Capt. John G. Walker took companies D and K, Mounted Rifles, from Fort...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 25 April 1875; Langtry, Texas: Lt. John L. Bullis, 24th Infantry, and three Seminole-African scouts, Sgt. John Ward and Pvts. Isaac Payne and Pompey Factor, were trailing a raiding party...
Tarrant County, Texas The following information is from the book, Fort Worth, A Frontier Triumph, by Julia Kathryn Garrett. In September, John H. Dyer, brigadier general of the Fourth Brigade, raised a company of volunteers and moved against the...
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