Palo Pinto County, Texas About 1861, the above gentlemen stopped for the night, a few miles northwest of the present city of Strawn, in an old log house, built and formerly occupied by Dicky Lloyd. In the mid-hours of night, the peculiar action of...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Dick Lemons had just returned from Weatherford, with a new Winchester, which he bought for Stiss Edmonson. He had also bought a large supply of cartridges. That night Stiss Edmondson, John Glover, and Huse Ennis, stayed with...
Erath County, Texas John Lemley and family numbered among the first settlers of Jack County, and reached there late in 1854. Later they moved to Palo Pinto County and located on the Brazos, north of Palo Pinto, and lived close to Rev. Geo. W...
Mason County, Texas Capture of the Lehman Children During May of 1869, Mrs. Phillip Buchmier sent her children from the rock home, about twenty miles south and east of Mason, to a little patch near the house for the purpose of scaring the birds out...
Llano County, Texas During 1868, among the very few families who lived in Legion Valley about sixteen miles south of Llano, were John F. Friend, Babe and Boy Johnson and their families. At the time of this particular raid, the Johnson brothers had...
Bandera County, Texas During 1860, while General Robert E. Lee was in command of the Department of Texas, his able officer in command of a division of the Second Cavalry, started from San Antonio to Brownsville, for the purpose of putting a stop to...
Palo Pinto County, Texas James H. Swindells, April 24, 1858, received a contract to carry the mail from Stephensville to a little place known as Birmingham on Palo Pinto Creek about one and a half miles north of the present town of Gordon; then to...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following story is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. In September 1898, a Chippewa man named Bug-onay-gee-shig (nicknamed Old Bug) was arrested at Onigum, Minnesota, on charges of...
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