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...
August 10, 1863, Preacher J. J. Hamilton's two sons, William and Stewart, were killed while returning home from their tannery. William was scalped and an ear was cut off of Stewart's head. The Brown family lived about one and a half miles east of...
Hood County, Texas During the fall of 1872, G.B. Rozel was camped on Robinson Creek, where he intended to build a log cabin. In addition to some smaller children, there were with him, at the time, his son, George, and two widowed daughters, Mrs...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 19 May 1872; Westover, Texas: A band of Comanches and Kiowas including Kom-pai-te, the young brother of Kiowa chief White Horse, attacked a survey party, led by L.H. Luckett, seven miles...
Medina County, Texas In the spring of 1865, August Rothe, Geo. Miller, Herbert Weynand, and Jacob Sauter, who lived on the Seco near old Fort Lincoln, while out in search of oxen, camped on the Hondo near a place called the Sink of Waters. Weynand...
Jack County, Texas About 1865 Alf Ross and family, and Shade Hightower, lived about two miles north of Finis, on Rock Creek, and in the western part of Jack County. They lived in two log houses, one room to each, and separated only about eight feet...
Jack County, Texas During 1863, Mr. Rolland and his married sons "Forted up" near the Jack, Palo Pinto and Parker County line, and at a point about three miles northeast of the present town of Perrin. Wm. Burnet, a neighbor, who lived two...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts
The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne.
The following is from the book, Indian Wars by Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
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