Palo Pinto County, Texas Dick, James, Campbell, Jerry, George Jowell, Beall Locke, and Ben Foster, on the 8th of November, 1870 were hunting cattle in the Turkey Creek country, six or seven miles northwest of the present city of Mineral Wells. Beall...
Parker County, Texas During 1868, R.W. Littlefield, Ed Ross, and Wright Jones, had just finished killing a beef, about two miles south of the present town of Millsap, and placed it on a pack horse, when R.W. Littlefield saw an Indian on a little...
Montague County, Texas Perryman Cemetery Historical Marker Marker Title: Perryman Cemetery Address: FM 455, NW of Forestburg City: Forestburg Year Marker Erected: 1983 Marker Location: From Forestburg take FM 455 about one mile to cemetery. Marker...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Story 1 27 March 1857; Mertzon, Texas: Johnston's Station was a small mail station on the Middle Concho River, 8 miles west of present-day San Angelo, Texas, on what would become the...
Burnet County, Texas One of the reliable surviving old-timers, with whom the author corresponded was of the opinion that Mr. Johnson's name was Enic, instead of Waford. All others were of the opinion that Mr. Johnson was generally known by the...
Montague County, Texas March 31, 1872, W.A. and Arch Johnson, brothers, about 18 and 13 years of age respectively, who lived on Denton Creek, about two miles northwest of Denver, in Montague County, went over to the home of Fred Broadstreet, to get...
Blanco County, Texas August 13, 1873, Dan W. Roberts, Thomas Bird, Joe Bird, John O. Biggs, Stanton Jolly, and Geo. Roberts, struck an Indian trail on Hickory Creek, about ten miles from Iron Mountain, and north of Johnson City. While they were...
Blanco County, Texas During 1870, the savages stole horses near Round Mountain, in Blanco County. The rangers were notified, so Columbus and Jim Patton, Charlie Haynes, Dave Herrington, John Backus, George and Jim Green, Sam Cady, B. Herrington...
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