Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Marker Title: Yellow House Canyon City: Lubbock County: Lubbock Text: From the book, Battlefields of Texas, by Bill Groneman: Quahadi Comanches under Black Horse had obtained a permit to...
Parker County, Texas Fondren Cemetery Historical Marker Marker Title: Fondren Cemetery Address: Fondren Cemetery Lane of US 180, via FM 113 and Authon Rd. City: Fondren Year Marker Erected: 1979 Marker Location: From Weatherford, take US 180 west...
Young County, Texas To describe a gigantic Indian raid, when a large number of blood-thirsty warriors break into smaller bands and each division simultaneously depredated upon a frontier community, in many respects, is not unlike attempting to...
Erath County, Texas William Willis, who lived about twenty miles south and a little west of Hamilton, started to the latter place to attend a frontier celebration, and New Year's party. B.F. Gholson offered to lend Wm. Willis a pony, and advised him...
Parker County, Texas Hiram Wilson was one of the early settlers of Parker County, and during the war, lived about 12 miles south of Weatherford, between Muddy Branch and Spring Creek. Oliver Fulton, his brother-in-law, lived on the latter stream...
Medina County, Texas Mills County, Texas Wolf was an employee of Hoffman, who ranched at the mouth of the Little Seco in Medina County. One morning during March of 1860 while cow-hunting on the Sabinal River, about eight miles north of the present...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following is from the book, Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, by Jerry Keenan. 8 January, 1877: This was one of the last military actions of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. By late...
Erath County, Texas Henry Mills, a married man, and John Wood who lived on the Paluxi, about sixteen or eighteen miles east of Stephenville, were out hunting hogs on the Sycamore, about eight miles west of their residence, and were carrying a sack...
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