Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts East Main Street at Capital Avenue Phone (502) 564-1792 E-mail [email protected] The Kentucky Historical Society’s campus, located in downtown Frankfort, Kentucky, includes the...
Kimble County, Texas December 24, 1877, Isaac N. Kountz and younger brother, Sebastian Kountz, while herding sheep about two miles southwest of Junction, saw several Indians coming down the road behind a herd of stolen horses. At first, they thought...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria The following story is from the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno. 19-20 May 1870: Sgt. Emanuel Stance took ten men from Capt. Henry Carroll's Company F, 9th...
Bandera County, Texas The Recapture of the Krawitz Children During 1862, about fifteen rangers camped about ten miles from the head of the Medina River in the Bandera County territory. It was an autumn night and Taylor Thompson doing guard duty. He...
Llano County, Texas During 1871, while Harve Putman and Wm. S. Kidd were hunting horses near Mr. Kidd's home and near the House Mountain in Llano County about four miles east of Loyal Valley, the savages charged Mr. Kidd, who fled for a cluster of...
Comanche County, Texas The surviving old settlers differ concerning the date of this particular transaction. Some place it as early as 1859, and others as late as 1861. Samuel Kuykendall, and a young man named Splawn lived on Resley's Creek about...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Author at Kidder's Fight Site 2 July 1867; Goodland, Kansas: While Lt. Col. George Custer was scouting the forks of the Republican River, Lt. Lyman S. Kidder of Company M, 2nd Cavalry...
Montague County, Texas During May or June of 1868, the Indians killed Bob Lackey and captured Natt and Dara McLeroy while they were gathering wild dewberries about four hundred yards from the home of their father Jno. R. McLeroy. Mr. McLeroy lived...
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