Shackelford County, Texas During the closing year of the Civil War, Phil Runnels was working for W.H. Ledbetter, who operated the Old Ledbetter Salt Works about nine miles south and west of the present city of Albany. Early in the morning Phil...
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...
As you go east on 180, just to your left is where W.J. Hale was returning from Dallas when five Indians chased him. During his pursuit, he ran into two other guys who threw in with him and helped repel the raiders. During the spring of 1872, about a...
Captain Culver's Men Encounter
Indians in Palo Pinto County
Indians Ambush W. J. Hale on
the Ioni
Fred Colley
George Lemons
Steve Brannon & Grandma
Cohen
Stephenville Blood Trail Map
Lucinda Wood & Liddie Lemley Relations with Reserve Indians Wilkins Family Newt Price Motheral Gap McDow & Son J. H. Parr & Others John Elkins Jowell & Bettie Baggett Bloody Raid in Bell & Coryell Counties Dan Roberts John Pruett...
Take Highway 82 to Nocona for a side trip (17 miles) up 103 to the site of Old Spanish Fort. Drop down to Montague on Hwy. 175 and continue on to Bowie on Hwy. 59. Try the buffet at the Catfish Hole on the west end of town. You can follow Hwy. 59...
Back up near Jermyn, several miles east of 1199, in 1864, a handful of cowboys were looking for strays at Wynn Hill when they were attacked by Indians and forced to take refuge in the timber. Milton Wynn was mortally wounded; B. L. Ham and Buck...
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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