Menard County, Texas Tullos B. Smith was returning late in the evening to his home in Menard, from the Wilkerson Ranch, about sixteen miles away, was mounted on a large black pony, and was leading about two other horses. As he passed a cluster of...
Menard County, Texas August 5, 1866, the cow men who lived in Menard County and elsewhere, rounded up about five thousand head of cattle, which were herded about ten miles east of old Fort McKavitt. When the day's work was done, Wm. McDougall rode...
Menard County, Texas Wilson S. Keith, who formerly lived in Erath County, moved to Menard County, and, perhaps, bought an interest in, or bought the entire ownership of the old Wilkerson Ranch. During the summer of 1873, he, in company with others...
Markers (click on a topic to jump to that section.) Arroyo de Juan Lorenzo | Fort McKavett, C.S.A. | Site of Fort McKavett | Jones, Sheriff John L. | Menard County | Site of Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba | Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba | Paso de...
Menard County, Texas When Lowe's train passed through their territory, the Kiowas were recovering from a smallpox epidemic which had devastated the plains tribes during the winter of 1861-62. To combat further outbreaks, the federal government sent...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Hext | Menard Uncommemorated Sites from North to South Mrs. Dorothy Fields | Tullos B. Smith | San Saba River Raid During the Summer of 1866 | W.W. Lewis and Others Fight | Frank Johnson Communities and Related Links...
Menard County, Texas Points of Interest Ruins of Real Presidio de San Saba, Spanish fort established in 1751 to protect Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba. Ruins maintained as county park two miles weset off Texas 29. Picnic facilities and adjacent...
Menard County, Texas November 2, 1831, James and R.P. Bowie, David Buchanan, Robert Armstrong, Jesse Wallace, Matthew Doyle, C.D. Helm, James Coryell, for whom Coryell County was named, and two or three others, under the leadership of James Bowie...
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