Montague County, Texas December 23, 1866, Wm. Bailey and D.B. Green, two boys about eighteen years of age, who lived on Sandy Creek in Montague County, were out together in search of a pony. When they had gone about one-half mile from the latter's...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Date unknown, ca. 1831; Matagorda, Texas: Elisha Flowers and Charles Cavina (or Cavanaugh), along with their families, were among the first emigrants to join Stephen Austin's colony...
Gregg County, Texas Lawlessness prevailed in Kilgore, the boomtown, but anarchy did not. Organized criminals were exporting thousands of barrels of "hot" oil in much the same way Chicago was importing thousands of gallons of illegal hooch...
Palo Pinto County, Texas The following story is from the book, The West Texas Frontier, by Joseph Carroll McConnell. During 1857, Benjamin Franklin Baker settled near the foot of Wynn Mountain, at a spring formerly known as Baker's Spring, and now...
Montague County, Texas September 5, 1870, there lived two families on the west prong of Denton Creek, about six miles southwest of Montague. Jesse Maxey, his wife, and daughter, Rhoda, and son, Valentine, lived in one end of a double log-house; and...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Brewster County, Texas Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: of Historical Destinations Alpine | Anthony | Balmorhea | Big Bend | Castolon | Fort Bliss | Fort Davis | El Paso | Fort Stockton |...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Baldwin On November 6 a one-hundred-man Cheyenne party ambushed a much smaller cavalry patrol on McClellan's Creek but inflicted little damage. Two days later in the same vicinity, a...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following Bear River story occurred southeast of Fort Hall in the corner of the state and can be found in the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno. Bear River...
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