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 National Ranching Heritage Center East of Indiana on Fourth Street Lubbock, Texas P. O. Box 43200 Lubbock, TX 79409-3200 Phone: (806) 742-0498 E-mail: [email protected] Hours Monday ...
Kimble County, Texas Mrs. Lafe McDonald, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Joy, who lived on James Peak, he came upon a wounded Indian, lying near the edge of the river about fifteen miles west of Harper in Kimble County, was staying with her parents...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 2 February 1865, Julesburg, Colorado: A month after the January attack on Julesburg, the Cheyenne and Lakota raiders hit the town again before leaving the area and heading for the Powder...
Kendall County, Texas F.C. Kaiser Shoots Indian in the Temple October 28, 1868, Indians were discovered on the Ammon ranch in Kendall county, about eight miles northeast of Boerne. So a messenger was sent to the Currey Creek Community. F.C. Kaiser...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Baca's Wagon Train | Bear Creek | Bear Creek Redoubt | Beaver Creek | Big Bushes | Cimarron Crossing 1 | Cimarron Crossing 2 | Comanches and Allies Battle Osages | Cow Creek | Davis's...
Karnes Comanche Fight, November, 1839 Colonel Karnes relied on his young scout, John Coffee Hayes, to find the renegade Comanches on November 1, 1839, a few miles from present-day Fredericksburg. The enemy was sited. John Coffee Hays Hays wrote: ...
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