Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria On the evening of September 16, 1868, scouts out of Fort Hays under Major George A. Forsyth pitched camp on the Arikaree Fork of the Republican River in the Colorado Territory. Forsyth...
Clay County, Texas During the War, Clay County was entirely abandoned. As early as 1862, only one or two families remained in the county. Ed Wohlfforth, and family lived on the Big Wichita about three or four miles from its mouth. One morning about...
Comanche County, Texas John Pruett Beene and his African, Dan Beene, early in the morning of December 30, 1857, left Mr. Beene's home on Resley's Creek, in Comanche County, where Mr. Beene had lived for about one year. Previously he had lived near...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts One of three sites of the Nez Perce National Historic Park in Montana, the Bear Paw Battlefield is located 16 miles south of Chinook on Highway 240. At this site, Chief Joseph of the...
Baylor County, Texas Click on a topic to jump to that section. Captain Buck Barry's 1861 Fight | Buck Barry's Life on the Bosque | Barry's Life on the NW Border | Fights of Col. Buck Barry and His Command on the Northwestern Frontier | Col. Buck...
Parker County, Texas The following story is from the book, The West Texas Frontier, by Joseph Carroll McConnell. The different authorities are not in accord concerning the date of this circumstance. But it probably occurred near the close of the...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Decades before the nineteenth century, explorers, adventurers, hunters and trackers trekked across the Great Plains, the Rockies and beyond. Countless numbers married into various tribes...
Bosque County, Texas
Buck Barry's Texas Indian Reservation
Buck Barry's Indian Encounter along the Northwestern Border
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