Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Apacheria San Xavier Mission Mission San Xavier del Bac is situated in the Santa Cruz Valley nine miles south of Tucson, Arizona. Framed in the warm browns of the surrounding hills and the violet...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria On April 6, more than 150 cheyenne prisoners escaped from the Darlington Agency on the North Fork of the Canadian River, and were pursued and surrounded by elements of the 5th Infantry...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Story 1 30 July 1876; Saragossa, Coahuila, Mexico: Even though Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie had successfully attacked the Kickapoos in their Mexican sanctuary in 1873, Kickapoos and Lipan...
Jack County, Texas Picture of Satanta, courtesy of Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Library Satanta and Big Tree were safely carried to Fort Richardson, and there securely imprisoned in the guardhouse at the post. It was, of...
Parker County, Texas March the 2nd, 1866, Bolen Savage who lived west of Weatherford on Sanchez Creek, was plowing in his field about ten o'clock in the morning, when nine Indians came riding from the east. These Indians were first discovered by Mrs...
Stephens County, Texas About 1869, Wm. Cain, Joe F. Schoolcraft, Levi Current, John Carter, and three or four others, while out stock-hunting, about eighteen miles northwest of old Picketville, and about two miles from the Clear Fork, near Flat Top...
Real County, Texas During 1863, Mr. and Mrs. Schwankner and son, lived near Camp Wood, not far from the Nueces, and the lines of the present counties of Real and Edwards. Mr. Schwankner was away, and Mrs. Schwankner and her son, Albert, her only...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Blazing the Goodnight Trail | Goodnight/Loving Pasture | Goodnight on Ranging and Making of a Scout | Real Lonesome Dove Charles Goodnight Ranchers and their cowboys made good Rangers. Their work well prepared them for this...
Recent Comments