Parker County, Texas Indians Celebrate the Fourth of July in Tarrant and Parker Counties The following story by Kate Nowak was featured in the July 2002, Painted Post Crossroads. I can still remember that Fourth of July the Indians came. The year...
Palo Pinto County, Texas During 1871, the Bevers, J.C. Loving, and C.C. Slaughter outfits were gathering cattle in Loving's Valley, near the present town of Salesville, in Palo Pinto County. J.C. Loving, C.C. Slaughter, Spencer Beners, W.J. Hales...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following Massacre Rocks Massacre story occurred just southwest of Fort Hall on the Snake River and can be found in the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Comanches and Kiowas including Lone Wolf, Satanta and Big Tree, attacked Captain Lyman's train of thirty-six wagons and sixty soldiers in Central Oklahoma on September 9, 1874. This...
Lampasas County, Texas In 1838 a party of surveyors and others under the leadership of Captain Lynch pitched their camp between Salt and Cherokee Creeks in the present county of Lampasas. Twenty-five men composed the party. Work progressed rapidly...
Topics (click on a topic to jump to that section) Recent Reader's Responses 2010 | West Texas Frontier | Previous Years Comments Recent Reader's Responses 2010 20 October, 2010, Tour of East Texas Oil Field Does your group organize tours of the East...
Topics (click on a topic to jump to that section) For more current comments, click here Books | Web Site Comments | West Texas Frontier 12 November, 2007, Custer Mistake on Fort Tours Dear Sir, Upon reading your Custer posting, here am I moved to...
Palo Pinto County, Texas During 1869, T.H. Majors, and wife, Mary and four daughters, Lareca, aged fifteen, Sarah and Nep, twins, aged about thirteen, and Emerlin, aged about eleven, lived about six miles southeast of the present town of Santo, in...
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