Montague County, Texas During the spring or early summer of 1871, several families were "Forted-up" at Victoria (Queen's) Peak in Montague County. One morning after a storm, several Indians appeared, surrounded the fort and for some time...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Village Creek Historical Marker Marker Location: Lakewood Dr., Arlington Golf Course, 7th Tee, Arlington, Texas Picture of John B. Denton, published in DeShields' Border Wars of Texas...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Bobby Morrow | Dallas Description | Epilogue | Fort Worth Description | Joe Don Looney | Wahoo McDaniel Origins of all of the Wahoo folk ballads can be traced to Midland, Texas in the...
Jack County, Texas September 13, 1873, Howell Walker and his son, Henry, who was about twelve years of age, and Mortimer Stevens, had been gathering corn, on Walker's Place, in Jack County, and went to the Thurman Springs, on Salt Creek, for water...
Wichita County, Texas
Company C & D, Ninth U.S. Cavalry; Lt. I.N. Walter
in command, had one trooper and two citizens killed on May 30th on Holiday
Creek.
The following story is from the book, Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke, by Stanley S. McGowen.
Gillespie County, Texas February 22, 1870, A. Walker and D.E. Moore, who lived in Legion Valley in Llano County, started to Fredericksburg with a load of bacon. When they had driven their oxen about six or seven miles and were about four or five...
Montague County, Texas Mrs. Sarah Ann Walker and three children, who lived in the Illinois Bend of Red River and in the northeastern part of Montague County, had been to visit a neighbor about six hundred yards away. When Mrs. Walker's brother was...
Bosque County, Texas James Buckner "Buck" Barry, C.S.A. Historical Marker Walnut Springs Park, south side of town on SH 144 Walnut Springs (1821-1906) Came to Texas from North Carolina in 1845. Fought in Mexican War and Indian campaigns...
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