Highway 51 South is the quickest route to Decatur and passes the vicinity of Ranger Sowell's Keep Ranch Fight and also the tail end of Big Tree's 1868 Kiowa Raid. A great alternative route is to follow 677 from Saint Jo to Forestburg and on down...
On Hwy. 337 to the east, in 1872, three cowboys intending to join a trail drive to Kansas, stumbled onto a band of Indians near the mouth of the Big Keechi. The Indians managed to steal some baggage containing three pairs of white stockings which...
Cross Plains Road Trip Ghols Flannigan Allen Brothers Blair & Hart Ellison Spring Fight Sarah Jane Keith Mrs. Lewis Coffer Henson & Lewis Samuel Rogers Camp Colorado Raid Lt. Best Mustang Water Hole Fight Robert Leslie Cox Kills Indian Don...
E. B. Dennis Jeremiah Green Rigman Bryant Bernard's Trading Post #2 Phillip Nolan Marker Colonel O'Neal (Neill) Captain Barry Monument Peter Johnson Sr. & Son Monroe Brothers Bloody Raid in Bell & Coryell Counties Mr. Dillard Blood Trails in...
Phil Runnels
Indian Captured at Battle Creek
George Hazlewood
Levi Current & Green Cox
Henry Jones
Spencer O'Neill & George
Tackett
Carter Brothers
W. C. McGough
Citizens Charge Indians
In 1871, Captain McAdams and son, David, were attacked but stood their ground against a handful of raiders, one of which was wounded during their retreat. On June 26th, 1872, Indians chased and killed Chesley S. Dobbs on his way home from Palo Pinto...
In Stem's Gap at the big bend to the north on 61, Major Stem and his friend Mr. Lepperman, both from Ohio from which Stem had relocated in 1850 after being appointed Special Indian Agent at the Lower Reservation, was killed late in the afternoon...
Russell Ranch
Babb Family
Bud Davis
Killing of Long
Sallie Bowman
Raid Near Rhome
Press Perkins
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