Burnet County, Texas After following an Indian trail for about eight miles during 1862, Capt. John Barton, Newton Murphy, Jesse Calvert, Wm. Allen and approximately four more were eating their lunch, when, to their surprise, fifteen savages began...
Parker County, Texas During 1864 Andrew Berry had driven two yoke of oxen from his home about five miles away to the frontier log cabin of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lee Hamilton, who lived in the brakes along the Brazos, about fifteen miles southwest of...
Burnet County, Texas During 1865, a Mr. Benson, who lived in Back Bone Valley about twelve miles southwest of Burnet, accompanied by a small son, walked out a few hundred yards from his house in search of timber to make ax handles. Benson was killed...
Throckmorton County, Texas The following story is from the book, Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman, by J. Evetts Haley. Upon his surrender the military situation immediately passed into the hands of three colonels designated by the Convention...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria June 15, 1850; San Ygnacio, Texas: Early in June 1850, Comanches raided in Webb County, Texas, in the vicinity of Laredo, and many Mexican settlers fled to town for protection. Capt...
Parker County, Texas The following story is from the book, The West Texas Frontier, by Joseph Carroll McConnell. The different authorities are not in accord concerning the date of this circumstance. But it probably occurred near the close of the...
Comanche County, Texas John Pruett Beene and his African, Dan Beene, early in the morning of December 30, 1857, left Mr. Beene's home on Resley's Creek, in Comanche County, where Mr. Beene had lived for about one year. Previously he had lived near...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria On the evening of September 16, 1868, scouts out of Fort Hays under Major George A. Forsyth pitched camp on the Arikaree Fork of the Republican River in the Colorado Territory. Forsyth...
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