Menard County, Texas November 2, 1831, James and R.P. Bowie, David Buchanan, Robert Armstrong, Jesse Wallace, Matthew Doyle, C.D. Helm, James Coryell, for whom Coryell County was named, and two or three others, under the leadership of James Bowie...
Young County, Texas John F. Bottorff lived within one and one-half miles of Uncle Archie Modlin, on the Brazos River, about eight or ten miles west of Graham, and about six miles southeast of Newcastle; and numbered among the first settlers in that...
Montague County, Texas It was about 1864 that the Indians attacked Mack Boren, who rode a good pony, and was out one evening south of Red River Station hunting horses. Boren ran his horse about one-fourth mile to Salt Creek. Here he jumped his pony...
The above story is from the book, On the Border With Mackenzie,
by Captain R.G. Carter.
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria
The above story is from the book, On the Border With Mackenzie,
by Captain R.G. Carter.
Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts Boone Station State Historic Site memorializes one of the state's most important historical figures. Daniel Boone established Boone Station in 1779 because he thought Fort...
Wichita County, Texas The Northwest Texas frontier is mostly about distance. Trees become little oasis of shade on the horizon and water is often hard to find. This situation was confronted by the Spanish conquistadors. Their maps describe it as an...
Jack County, Texas Colonel Drake drilled the first successful oil well around the end of the Civil War. The success of Edison's light bulb drastically reduced the nation's demand for lamp oil, which rendered petroleum practically worthless. Once...
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