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Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. The next major battle in Nebraska to warrant the Congressional Medal of Honor occurred on the South Loup Fork of the Platte River...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria A.J. Sowell Second generation Texas Ranger A.J. Sowell admiringly described Comanche Chief Oska Horseback at the 1872 battle scene on the Keep Ranch in upper Wise County: Comanche Chief...
The above story is from the book, Rangers and Pioneers of Texas,
by A. J. Sowell.
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Coryell County, Texas Late in the evening of September 24, 1865, B.F. Gholson hobbled two horses near the Asa-Langford Ranch, about six hundred yards south of the present town of Evant. They had not been there long when twelve Indians came along and...
Burnet County, Texas During 1869, Marion and Columbus Smith, A.H. Edwards, Jim and Wm. Strains, Tom Cates, and possibly one or two more, while scouting for Indians, encountered the savages about six miles north of Burnet. There were about twenty...
Menard County, Texas Tullos B. Smith was returning late in the evening to his home in Menard, from the Wilkerson Ranch, about sixteen miles away, was mounted on a large black pony, and was leading about two other horses. As he passed a cluster of...
'Captain Tumlinson was commissioned to raise a company on the Colorado, and early in January, 1836, he reported for duty with a company of sixty mounted men, myself included. We were assigned to duty on the head waters of Brushy Creek, some thirty...
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