Palo Pinto County, Texas About 1860, when the savages were stealing horses near the present town of Gordon, in Palo Pinto County, the news was dispatched to Col. Baylor and a company of rangers in Parker County. No further solicitation was...
Montague County, Texas John Willingham and Bob Wainscott were building new homes on Denton Creek, about ten miles south of Montague, and had already moved their families into this new territory. September 5, 1858, which was Sunday, Daniel Wainscott...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts On December 25th, 1837, U.S. Army Colonel Zachary Taylor and 800 troops including a volunteer Missouri Regiment led by Colonel Richard Gentry left Fort Bassinger in search...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Killdeer Mountain, North Dakota, Dunn County, July 28-29, 1864 History U.S. Major General John Pope's 1864 campaign against the Lakota (Sioux) was a response to the demands for protection by...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 4 May 1877; Morton, Texas: While the buffalo hunters tried to go after the renegade Comanches, the U.S. Cavalry was also on their trail. On 9 April, Capt. Phillip L. Lee and 42 buffalo...
Parker County, Texas During the summer of 1861, Thomas Killen, William Washington, and Sowell, hunting stock on Poe Prairie, north of Millsap in Parker County, stopped in the shade to let their horses graze. Each of them were unarmed and suddenly...
Uvalde County, Texas Indians Attack the Home of Mrs. R.H. Kincheloe During October of 1866, Mr. and Mrs. Kincheloe and their children, lived in a picket home about three miles east of Utopia. A Mr. Borland, his wife and children, lived on Mr...
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