Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Rock Creek Station might have faded into obscurity, like so many other stage and Pony Express stations, except for one fateful day in 1861. On that July afternoon, one James Butler Hickok...
Brown County, Texas About 1858, Dick and Aaron Robbins and John Jones were out hunting deer about three miles east of Regency in Hanna Valley on the Colorado. This territory is now in Mills but was then a part of Brown County. They discovered and...
Early Republic of Texas Rangers | Ranger Descriptions | Rangers Col. Edward Burleson James Milford Day James Wilson Nichols James Milford Day, pictured above, one of Guadalupe County's earliest settlers, was seriously wounded in a gun battle with...
Back to Fort Belknap The following is from the book, Lambshead Before Interwoven, by Frances Mayhugh Holden. After Texas entered the Union on February 16, 1846, Neighbors, retained as agent, immediately participated in making the first United States...
Palo Pinto County, Texas When the Indians passed Murphy's Station, the second day after they killed John Brown and Mrs. Sherman, and the succeeding day after they stole the horse of Jowell McKee, and gave Tom Mullins and Conatser an exciting chase...
Shackelford County, Texas Several years before the secession of the states, Capt. Gibbons constructed a stone ranch residence, on the Old California Trail, in Throckmorton County, a few miles east of the Haskell County line. This building remained...
Wise County, Texas Alonzo Dill It was about 1866 that the savages charged Alonzo Dill, in the vicinity of the present town of Rhome, in the southeastern part of Wise County. Alonzo Dill was a considerable distance from his home, and beyond the West...
Albert D. Richardson's first-hand account of his 1859 Butterfield Stage Ride into Texas from the book, Beyond the Mississippi. Waterman L. Ormsby's account of leaving Fort Belknap on the 1858 initial run of the Butterfield Overland Mail. Butterfield...
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