Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Ca. 23 December 1850; Loma Alta, Texas: Lt. Edward Burleson was taking his company of Texas Rangers to Fort McIntosh at Laredo. A few miles from the Nueces River in McMullen County...
Young County, Texas To describe a gigantic Indian raid, when a large number of blood-thirsty warriors break into smaller bands and each division simultaneously depredated upon a frontier community, in many respects, is not unlike attempting to...
Parker County, Texas Fondren Cemetery Historical Marker Marker Title: Fondren Cemetery Address: Fondren Cemetery Lane of US 180, via FM 113 and Authon Rd. City: Fondren Year Marker Erected: 1979 Marker Location: From Weatherford, take US 180 west...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Marker Title: Yellow House Canyon City: Lubbock County: Lubbock Text: From the book, Battlefields of Texas, by Bill Groneman: Quahadi Comanches under Black Horse had obtained a permit to...
The below first-hand account is from the book, Captured by the Indians,
by Frederick Drimmer.
Capture
Torture
On The Trail
Escape
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. On August 15, three companies of 9th Infantry under Major Robert Garnett and one company of the 4th Infantry Regiment under...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America The Wyoming Valley "massacre" was a military battle in the American Revolutionary War that took place in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley on July 3, 1778, in which more...
Jack County, Texas It was about 1864 that Milton (Dock) Wynn, Buck Sanders, B.L. Henry, Thompson, Frank Lane, Luke Choate, and one or two others who were out cow-hunting near Wynn-Hill, west of Jacksboro, had a bitter engagement with the Indians...
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