Throckmorton County, Texas Before the war, Mrs. Dodson built an excellent frontier home near the mouth of King's Creek, in Stephens County. She had her African slaves plant a hedge of bois d' arc timber under the banks of the Clear Fork. Mrs...
Johnson County, Texas On the morning of March 14, 1872, Thomas Landrum was shot and killed while unhitching a span of horses in front of Fuller Millsap's residence on Rock Creek. Mr. Fuller Millsap After the massacre of Thomas Landrum, Mr. Millsap...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following story is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. In September 1898, a Chippewa man named Bug-onay-gee-shig (nicknamed Old Bug) was arrested at Onigum, Minnesota, on charges of...
Palo Pinto County, Texas While preparing and gathering the data for the present work, the author exerted every atom of energy to present each story as accurately as possible. In doing so, he used a checking system for the purpose of eliminating some...
Palo Pinto County, Texas James H. Swindells, April 24, 1858, received a contract to carry the mail from Stephensville to a little place known as Birmingham on Palo Pinto Creek about one and a half miles north of the present town of Gordon; then to...
Kerr County, Texas During 1862, Sammy Lane, who lived about two miles west of Comfort, in the edge of Kerr County, started to the home of John Corner, who lived near the present town of Center Point. It was also Mr. Lane's mission to see about some...
Bandera County, Texas During 1860, while General Robert E. Lee was in command of the Department of Texas, his able officer in command of a division of the Second Cavalry, started from San Antonio to Brownsville, for the purpose of putting a stop to...
Jack County, Texas December the 24, 1868, Green, Marion, A.M. George, and Luke Lasater, had a narrow escape in the Keechi Valley, about three or four miles south of the present town of Perrin. About seven hogs had been running loose for some time...
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