Brown County, Texas During 1862, Lt. J. Chandler, in command of a squad of about ten men who belonged to Capt. J.J. Callan's company then camped on Clear Creek in the Brown and Coleman County section, were scouting in the vicinity of Santa Anna Gap...
Wise County, Texas Deep Creek Community Historical Marker Marker Title: Deep Creek Community Address: CR 4227, N of Aurora City: Boyd Year Marker Erected: 1970 Marker Location: From Aurora, take Old Decatur-Aurora Road (CR 4227) about 4 miles north;...
Runnels County, Texas During 1877, Billy Brown and Horace Simms, who were ranching on Oak Creek, northwest of Ballinger in Runnels County, discovered two or three men that appeared to be Indians, driving a bunch of stolen horses. The Indians ran and...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the book, Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, by Jerry Keenan. 19 August 1877: Following the Battle of the Big Hole, Gen. O.O. Howard took up pursuit of the...
Montague County, Texas James J. Box, who lived on the head of Elm, in Montague County, near the present city of St. Jo, and who was returning from a trip to Eastern Texas, stopped in Gainesville one week, because of the sickness of his wife. To them...
Brown County, Texas Coleman County, Texas During 1867, after exchanging shots with Indians in the Trickham Community, the Indians went seven miles farther east and appeared at the home of Brooks Lee, who then lived on Clear Creek in Brown County...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts In 1846, during the Mexican War, a detachment of the 2nd Dragoons of the U.S. Army was moved from Indian Territory to Austin. Their camp, like many other holding camps at the time...
Coryell County, Texas During the summer of 1863, Jno. Sellers and his nephew, Almond Boyd, a son of James Boyd, who lived about four miles south of the present town of Pancake, in Coryell County, were returning home from the Leon Valley, where they...
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