Palo Pinto County, Texas During the year 1856, Willis Mills and Ansell Russell established Palo Pinto County's first store on the old Fort Worth and Belknap road, about one and one-half miles west of the present town of Graford. About 1858, Mr...
Palo Pinto County, Texas About 1871, Capt. W.C. McAdams and his son, David, were returning to their home near McAdams' Creek, from the present Boydston Ranch, where they had attended a round-up. After going about six miles McAdams and his son were...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Running Fight of Captain McAdam's Men During January of 1874, Capt. W.C. McAdams was in command of a company of Texas Rangers, camped near the Flat Rock Crossing, of Dark Valley, about nine miles north of Palo Pinto. Capt...
Palo Pinto County, Texas During 1871, the Bevers, J.C. Loving, and C.C. Slaughter outfits were gathering cattle in Loving's Valley, near the present town of Salesville, in Palo Pinto County. J.C. Loving, C.C. Slaughter, Spencer Beners, W.J. Hales...
Palo Pinto County, Texas During 1869, T.H. Majors, and wife, Mary and four daughters, Lareca, aged fifteen, Sarah and Nep, twins, aged about thirteen, and Emerlin, aged about eleven, lived about six miles southeast of the present town of Santo, in...
Palo Pinto County, Texas During February, 1867, the Indians slipped into the frontier town of Palo Pinto, and stole several head of horses. The next morning a number of local citizens took their trail which followed along the top of the hill south...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Blazing the Goodnight Trail | Goodnight/Loving Pasture | Goodnight on Ranging and Making of a Scout | Oliver Loving and His Last Overland Drive | Real Lonesome Dove The following excerpt from the book, Ninety-Four Years In...
Palo Pinto County, Texas While preparing and gathering the data for the present work, the author exerted every atom of energy to present each story as accurately as possible. In doing so, he used a checking system for the purpose of eliminating some...
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