Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Prior February 24th attack on Coleman home Benjamin Franklin Highsmith Photo originally published in Sowell's Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas, 1900. Benjamin...
Cameron County, Texas
Parker County, Texas In the summer of 1861, Mrs. John Brown was killed by Indians. She had twin babies and had started to visit a neighbor near by, she was carrying one of the children, and a girl about grown (one of the accounts we have, say she...
Parker County, Texas Mary Tarkington Brown Crawford (circa 1832-1916), widow of John Brown, who, in November 1860, was killed, scalped, and mutilated by the Comanches near his home located sixteen miles northwest of Weatherford and about four miles...
Stephens County, Texas The following article is by Bill Fairley and was published in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Photo Courtesy of the Texas Collection/Baylor University John Robert Baylor, kin to several famous Baylors, had a life marked by...
Brown County, Texas Coleman County, Texas During 1867, after exchanging shots with Indians in the Trickham Community, the Indians went seven miles farther east and appeared at the home of Brooks Lee, who then lived on Clear Creek in Brown County...
Runnels County, Texas During 1877, Billy Brown and Horace Simms, who were ranching on Oak Creek, northwest of Ballinger in Runnels County, discovered two or three men that appeared to be Indians, driving a bunch of stolen horses. The Indians ran and...
Coleman County, Texas May 11, 1870, A.B. Brown A.J. Herring, Nat, Bill, and Bert Guest, W.A. and Jim Beddoe, Bob Wylie, Ben Barton, Tom Stark, Sammy Coggins, and, perhaps, one two others, took two dogs, belonging to Bill Beddoe and Nat Guest, and...
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