Topics (click on a topic to jump to that section) Day Trip to Fort Parker Day Trip to Fort Parker, July, 2004 by Wendi Lundquist We started out this day trip heading southeastward on Highway 287 to Mansfield. This town developed when, in Fort Worth...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Highway 82 More Stories and Information on Fort Tours Road Trips In the late 1750s, the Spanish sent an army of five hundred to punish the Comanche, Wichita and their French allies at...
I want to emphasize that the red flagged locations are approximate and the mileage is provided solely for the purpose of tempting the imagination of one viewing through the windshield. All property beyond the fences is private and it is dangerous...
Back to Blood Trails Historical Markers for Milam County Historical Markers for Williamson County James O. Rice Historical Marker Marker Title: James O. Rice Address: North from SH 290 11.3 miles to FM 1660/FM 973 intersection, 8 mi. S of Taylor on...
It's not a surprise that Jacksboro Highway offers the quickest route to Fort Richardson. You can reach this shortcut on Loop 820, or you can just follow Henderson Street northwest out of downtown. Ghosts of gamblers and gangsters haunt the sites of...
North on 16, in 1875, Houston Bevers and three others chased six or seven Indians from the Keechi to Flat Top Mountain. Fire was exchanged and a horse and maybe a raider were killed. In June of 1874, James K. P. Wright and another J. C. Loving...
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Reading the map from the south, approaching Jacksboro, on the Texas Fort Trail. On the east side of Highway 281, about 1864, Capt. Dillahunty's Rangers commanded by J. W. Sheek were confronted by Indians upon returning from a scouting expedition...
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