Hood County, Texas E.B. (Dick) Dennis was at his home in Hood County on a furlough and preparing to return to the army. But before he left, he and his wife rode out on the range in search of stock. Mr. Dennis was riding a slow pony, but Mrs. Dennis...
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum 1700 N.E. 63rd Street Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111 (405) 478-2250 Museum Hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daily Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day Admissions, Including Tax $12.50 Adults $9.75...
Parker County, Texas Authon Cemetery Historical Marker Marker Title: Authon Cemetery Address: On Garner-Adell Rd, off US 180, about 20 mi. W of Weatherford. City: Authon Year Marker Erected: 1981 Marker Location: From Weatherford, take US 180 west...
Palo Pinto County, Texas John Cravens and Nath Darnell established an old ox-treadmill in the western part of Palo Pinto in 1858 or 1859, and it was from this old structure that Mill Branch derived its name. John Cravens owned a sandy bearded...
Palo Pinto County, Texas After Jesse Veale was killed and sometime during the year 1873, or early in 1874, the Indians made a horse-stealing raid through Fortune Bend, about nine miles northwest of Palo Pinto, and stole a large Bay mare that W.C...
Creek War/ Horseshoe Bend Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts An Indian uprising in the South brought on the Creek Indian War (1813-1814). Creeks who lived mainly in Alabama and Georgia were alarmed by encroachments...
Kimble County, Texas About the 12th day of May, 1879, J.D. Creeth, George Branch, his son-in-law, and Elias Brown, who lived in Kimble County, about fifteen miles above Junction, on the south or lower prong of the Llano, loaded a pack-mule, and...
Parker County, Texas The following story is from the book, A Cry Unheard, by Doyle Marshall: Bill Heffington, son of Stephen Heffington, who took a land grant in the Bear Creek community of southeast Parker County in the mid-1850s, enjoyed the...
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