Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria A Main Street Ghost Town: "The Mother City of the Panhandle." Wheeler County, Texas Panhandle Hwy 152 31 miles East of Pampa 84 miles East of Amarillo "Mobeetie" is...
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 Henry Meier and his son, Henry Jr., who lived on the line of Gillespie and Kendall county, and who were driving a heavily loaded wagon drawn by five yoke of oxen, started to the home of Hen. Heiligmann, who lived on the...
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The above information is from the book, Mark of Heritage, by Muriel H. Wright, courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.
Brown County, Texas Fight Near Mercer's Gap in the Comanche/Brown County Territory About 1861, J.H. Christman, T.D. Saunders, Ambrose Lathen and Pat Gallagher, who were on their way from Camp Colorado to Gatesville, met several Indians driving a...
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The above information is from the book, Mark of Heritage, by Muriel H. Wright, courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.
San Saba County, Texas During 1863, Mr. Merrimond, who spent the night in San Saba, started home horseback and was driving a yoke of steers. At the time, he lived on the Colorado, twenty-three miles north and west of San Saba. After going only five...
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...
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