Montague County, Texas During the spring or early summer of 1871, several families were "Forted-up" at Victoria (Queen's) Peak in Montague County. One morning after a storm, several Indians appeared, surrounded the fort and for some time...
Cottle County, Texas During the fall of 1876, Comanche Jack, an Indian, and his followers, stole horses belonging to Vaughan, in the territory north of Pease River. Vaughan and his men came upon the Indians one morning just as they were breaking...
Culberson County, Texas Ca. January 15, 1858; Van Horn, Texas: Stage company employees at the isolated stations dotting the overland trails had one of the most dangerous jobs in the West. During the winter of 1858, Light S. Townsend was station...
Burnet County, Texas During February 1860, Mosiac Scaggs and his family consisted of a wife and eight or nine children. They lived on the North Gabriel in Burnet County about twelve miles south of Lampasas. Benjamin Van Hook lived farther east in...
Freestone County, Texas The Battle of Val Verde was the Confederates' shining moment in the otherwise ill-fated Sibley Expedition in the southwest. Battle of Glorieta | Battle of Val Verde | Early Southwest | Fort Belknap | Fort Craig | Sibley In...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 7 January 1865, Sterling, Colorado: While a large force of Lakotas and Cheyennes attacked Julesburg, more than 70 warriors raided along the road to Denver on both sides of Valley Station...
General Crook Location/History Just North of Cave Creek, the area of Bloody Basin was the site of a bitter skirmish on March 27, 1873. It formed part of Gen. George Crook’s Tonto Basin campaign to force the Apaches and Yavapais to submit to...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria 13 September 1878; Camp Houston, Oklahoma: On 9 September, a band of 92 Northern Cheyenne warriors and 268 women and children under Dull Knife and Little Wolf left their agency at...
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