It's not a surprise that Jacksboro Highway offers the quickest route to Fort Richardson. You can reach this shortcut on Loop 820, or you can just follow Henderson Street northwest out of downtown. Ghosts of gamblers and gangsters haunt the sites of...
North on 16, in 1875, Houston Bevers and three others chased six or seven Indians from the Keechi to Flat Top Mountain. Fire was exchanged and a horse and maybe a raider were killed. In June of 1874, James K. P. Wright and another J. C. Loving...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Rosebud Battlefield State Park P.O. Box 1630 Miles City, MT 59301 Phone: (406) 232-0900 History On the morning of June 17, 1876, Brig. Gen. George Crook, his 1,050 soldiers and 260...
Montague County, Texas It was about the year 1863, that Indians were discovered near the camp of Capt. Totty's and in the vicinity of the present town of Forestburg, in Montague County. Lt. Robbins and about eight soldiers took the Indian trail and...
Comanche County, Texas T.M. Shackley and his sister, Margaret, had been up to the ranch about one and one-half miles northeast of Mr. Shackley's home. As they returned, they saw an Indian on a high peak, spying over the surrounding country. This was...
Llano County, Texas During 1868, Capt. Alex Roberts, his son,Wm. (Buck) Roberts and George Roberts, Will Shipp, Morris Humphries and possibly one or two more, were out scouting in the colorful hills of Llano County and then discovered several horses...
Kimble County, Texas Dan W. Roberts During November of 1874, while Scott Cooley and Wm. Treweck were hunting a beef in Menard County for the rangers, they discovered about eleven Indians. Major John B. Jones, who was moving southward, was at a camp...
Uvalde County, Texas The 13th day of March, 1861, Henry M. Robinson and Henry Adams, who lived twelve and fifteen miles northwest of Uvalde on the Nueces, started to camp Wood, a Federal military post, which was being abandoned because of the...
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