Part of our in-depth series exploring Texas Forest Trail Region Forts Markers, Museums and History Big Inch Pipeline Marker Title: Big Inch Pipeline City: Longview County: Gregg Year Marker Erected: 1990 Marker Location: Martin Luther King at...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Lac qui Parle Mission P.O. Box 303 Montevideo, MN 56265 Phone: 320-269-7636 E-mail: [email protected] Learn about life at this pre-territorial mission, the development of the Dakota...
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: ...
Palo Pinto County, Texas During 1872, H.G. Taylor, Huse Bevers, P.J. Taylor, John McLaren, Lidge Maddox, and others started over the trail with the Taylor and Bevers' cattle, from Palo Pinto County to Kansas. When they reached Big Keechi, these...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria The following story is a first-hand account of the famous Keep Ranch Fight in Ranger Sowell's own words from the book, Rangers and Pioneers of Texas. …The Comanches were on the...
Erath County, Texas We are not quite sure of the date of the two incidents related at this time, but they occurred sometime during the Civil War or shortly afterward, and will be reported at this time. On one occasion Berry (Coon) Keith, Johnny...
Eastland County, Texas We are not certain when this episode occurred. But since it happened near the close of the Civil War, it will be reported at this time. Mrs. Sarah Jane Keith, wife of Berry (Coon) Keith, and her two children, Halbert, and Lou...
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