Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America At the same time President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up the Missouri River in 1805, Lt. Zebulon Pike was sent up the Mississippi River. Pike was instructed to...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Throckmorton Uncommemorated Sites from North to South James Hamby | Freeman Ward Murdered as Hostile Indians Charge William, Jess and John Hittson | Famous Paint Creek Fight | Indians Storm the Lee Home | M.L. McCabe Fight...
The Flats:Texas's First Boom Town Shackelford County, Texas Albany | Clear Fork | Flats | Fort Davis | Fort Griffin Reynolds Company Cowboys, Frequent Visitors at the Flats From the book, A Texas Frontier, by Ty Cashion The following is from the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The History of Fort Atkinson Fort Atkinson was the first United States Army post to be established west of the Missouri River in the United States. Located just east of present-day Fort...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Burkburnett | Electra | Iowa Park | Wichita Falls Uncommemorated Sites from North to South George Halsell | Tenth Cavalry Creek | Mysterious Disappearance of the Christal Brothers | Lieutenant I.N. Walker | Professor...
Coleman County, Texas June 1, 1871, John Coffee, Nep Hammonds, Napoleon Lemons and Daniel Arnold were "loose herding" about 1020 head of cattle that belonged to Rich Coffee, W.A. Beddoe and Buck Johnson. The cattle were being held about...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Bridgeport | Decatur Uncommemorated Sites from North to South Keep Ranch Fight | Big Raid Through Wise, Denton and Montague Counties | Murder of Mrs. Huff and Her Daughters | Capture of James and William Ball | Indians...
Young County, Texas Citizens Encounter Indians Near Flat Top in Young Co. During 1875, the Indians made a raid near the Wm. Metcalf and McKinney place, on the Brazos, and on the two Keechis. These Indians were discovered by Huse Bevers, not a great...
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