Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Story 1 Ca. May 5, 1861; Balmorhea, Texas: After taking care of some company business at Fort Stockton, George H. Giddings boarded one of his own coaches and, with Parker Burnham at the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Different accounts do not agree concerning the date of this engagement. According to one account, it was fought in the spring of 1841, while others place the date in 1843. Nevertheless...
Wise County, Texas During 1866, James Ball, aged nine, and Wm. Ball, his cousin, eight years of age, had been sent from the home of Mose Ball, a few miles north of Decatur, in Wise County, to the pioneer residence of Press Walker, who lived about...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Baldwin On November 6 a one-hundred-man Cheyenne party ambushed a much smaller cavalry patrol on McClellan's Creek but inflicted little damage. Two days later in the same vicinity, a...
Palo Pinto County, Texas The following story is from the book, The West Texas Frontier, by Joseph Carroll McConnell. During 1857, Benjamin Franklin Baker settled near the foot of Wynn Mountain, at a spring formerly known as Baker's Spring, and now...
Montague County, Texas December 23, 1866, Wm. Bailey and D.B. Green, two boys about eighteen years of age, who lived on Sandy Creek in Montague County, were out together in search of a pony. When they had gone about one-half mile from the latter's...
Montague County, Texas The succeeding morning after Spencer Mueller and his son were killed, as related in the preceding section, it is presumed the same savages came upon Jno. Stump and Bailey, who had started to Gainesville in an ox-wagon with...
Comanche County, Texas About one hour after the Indians murdered Gid Foreman, they suddenly appeared at the home of John Baggett, who lived about nine miles nearly north of Cora. Mr. Baggett had gone to the latter place for supplies. Mrs. Baggett...
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