Gillespie County, Texas Ammie and Ennie Metzger, daughters of Peter Metzger, who lived about three miles north of Fredericksburg, were returning to their home. Ennie, about thirteen years of age, had been staying with her uncle, John Metzger, in...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Story 1 16 April 1880; Mescalero, New Mexico: On 16 April, Cols. Benjamin Grierson and Edward Hatch assembled about 700 men of the 6th, 9th, and 10th Cavalries at the Mescalero Agency...
San Saba County, Texas During 1863, Mr. Merrimond, who spent the night in San Saba, started home horseback and was driving a yoke of steers. At the time, he lived on the Colorado, twenty-three miles north and west of San Saba. After going only five...
Brown County, Texas Fight Near Mercer's Gap in the Comanche/Brown County Territory About 1861, J.H. Christman, T.D. Saunders, Ambrose Lathen and Pat Gallagher, who were on their way from Camp Colorado to Gatesville, met several Indians driving a...
Gillespie County, Texas Henry Meier and his son, Henry Jr., who lived on the line of Gillespie and Kendall county, and who were driving a heavily loaded wagon drawn by five yoke of oxen, started to the home of Hen. Heiligmann, who lived on the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following story is from the book, Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, by Jerry Keenan. During the 1870s silver strikes in Colorado brought many whites into the western part of the state...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria From the book, Satanta, by Charles M. Robinson, III: Satanta wearing his Medicine Lodge peace medal and his bugle strap. New York Herald correspondent DeB. Randolph Keim remembered...
Stephens County, Texas At one time, McWaits and Rixey lived near where Palo Pinto, Stephens, and Young Counties joined. At another time, Dutch Franks batched with McWaits. But in 1867, McWaits batched alone in Veale's Hollow, near the old Bingham...
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