Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the Picture This, Early California web site. Following the end of the Civil War in 1865, settlement of the West increased rapidly, and the mass movement of...
Gillespie County, Texas Ammie and Ennie Metzger, daughters of Peter Metzger, who lived about three miles north of Fredericksburg, were returning to their home. Ennie, about thirteen years of age, had been staying with her uncle, John Metzger, in...
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The above information is from the book, Mark of Heritage, by Muriel H. Wright, courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.
McCulloch County, Texas May 13, 1869, about eighty Indians came to the John Chism Ranch, on Home Creek, about fifteen miles north and a little east of the present town of Mercury, and chased two horse traders, who successfully escaped. The savages...
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The above information is from the book, Mark of Heritage, by Muriel H. Wright, courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Apacheria Geronimo, left, and Naiche Surrendering for a Second Time. Picture from the National Archives The following story is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. On May 15, Captain Charles...
Back to Northeastern Oklahoma Location of Marker: In Worcester Cemetery, Park Hill, Cherokee County Elias Boudinot was born in 1802 in the Cherokee Nation, Georgia and was the brother of Stand Watie. A member of the prominent Ridge-Watie-Boudinot...
Mason County, Texas T.J. Milligan, who had been sheriff of Mason County, lived on Comanche Creek about one and a half miles north and west of Mason on the Camp Colorado and San Antonio Road, and had charge of a local stage stand. Late in the...
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