Llano County, Texas During the early part of 1870, Sampson Hale, who lived near the west end of Long Mountain in Llano County, purchased a new Winchester and was alone on top of the mountain to try it out, when five Indians happened to come along...
Llano County, Texas During the summer of 1871, A. Keefe, who lived on the Little Sandy near the Enchanted Rock in Gillespie County, while out hunting his oxen, saw an Indian slipping toward him. Keefe quickly fired, killed the Indian, jumped on his...
Llano County, Texas During 1868, Capt. Alex Roberts, his son,Wm. (Buck) Roberts and George Roberts, Will Shipp, Morris Humphries and possibly one or two more, were out scouting in the colorful hills of Llano County and then discovered several horses...
Llano County, Texas Late one evening when Deve Herrington and Wm. George turned in the milk cows to their calves, they noticed an animal wearing a bell, had a blunt arrow sticking in her side. That, of course, was sufficient warning that the Indians...
Llano County, Texas During the spring of 1841, the Indians made a night raid in the vicinity of Gonzales and drove away a number of horses. The venerable Ben McCulloch hastily called for volunteers. Sixteen men of the neighborhood immediately...
Llano County, Texas During 1868, among the very few families who lived in Legion Valley about sixteen miles south of Llano, were John F. Friend, Babe and Boy Johnson and their families. At the time of this particular raid, the Johnson brothers had...
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...
Llano County, Texas During 1863, Parson Hoover, then conducting a Methodist camp meeting in Llano County, dismissed his congregation to fight the Indians. Inasmuch as the savages made it almost impossible for the citizens to have horses, practically...
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