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...
Hood County, Texas During the summer of 1866, Pleas Boyd was herding cattle about two miles south of Lipan, when several savages charged upon him. He was armed with a six-shooter, only two chambers of which would shoot; and the pony he was riding...
Parker County, Texas Mary Tarkington Brown Crawford (circa 1832-1916), widow of John Brown, who, in November 1860, was killed, scalped, and mutilated by the Comanches near his home located sixteen miles northwest of Weatherford and about four miles...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts Federal Raid from Camp Boveda Marker Title: Federal Raid from Camp Boveda City: Riviera County: Kleberg Year Marker Erected: 1965 Marker Location: Intersection of US 77 and FM 771...
Kinney County, Texas About 1861, Tom Brackett, who lived in Bracketville near Fort Clark, started in a wagon with his wife and children to Uvalde. He was within fourteen miles of his destination, when the entire family was massacred by Indians...
Parker County, Texas In the summer of 1861, Mrs. John Brown was killed by Indians. She had twin babies and had started to visit a neighbor near by, she was carrying one of the children, and a girl about grown (one of the accounts we have, say she...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Address Fort Sumner, NM, 2 miles east of the village of Fort Sumner on Billy the Kid Road. Some of the more than 8,000 Navajo who surrendered to Kit Carson during his 1864 campaign of...
Kimble County, Texas About ten days after the killing of James H. Sewell, James Bradberry and son, James Bradberry, Jr., Bob Nixon, John Bradberry, Allan Bradberry, Charlie Waggoner, Black Burt, Willse Robbins, Bill Moore, and perhaps two or three...
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