Burnet County, Texas Captain John Harvey, who often said, "When you least expect Indians, there they are", accompanied by ten men, made a surveying expedition into the wilds of Burnet County during June of 1839, and a Mr. Burnet was on...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Burnet | Marble Falls Uncommemorated Sites from North to South Robert Adams | Citizens of Coryell Kill Several Indians Near Ferry | Johnathan P. Ragle, Lewis Jackson and Lorenzo Holland | Benjamin Van Hook and Mosiac...
Burnet County, Texas During 1863, Mr. Cook herded sheep for James Boyce at the Boyce Ranch about twelve miles northeast of Burnet. Early one moonlight night, the Indians were seen as they passed the ranch of Mr. Duke Strickland. They went about...
Burnet County, Texas Points of Interest Burnet Gunfighters Association, 512-756-1872, 225 Shady Glen Ranch Canyon of the Eagles, Lodge & Nature Park at Lake Buchanan, 800-977-0811/512-756-8787, 16942 RR 2341 Fall Creek Vinyards, 915-379-5361...
Burnet County, Texas While Lum Tedford, a boy, was plowing in a field in Hoover Valley about ten miles west of Burnet, during 1865, he was captured by Indians about 150 yards from the house. James and Tom Cooper, Bill McGill and perhaps one or two...
Burnet County, Texas During 1871, while Sam Brooks was hunting horses about six miles northwest of Burnet, he saw three men whom he thought were John Calvert's cow hands. Shortly afterwards, however, he discovered that a large band of Indians were...
Burnet County, Texas During 1865, a Mr. Benson, who lived in Back Bone Valley about twelve miles southwest of Burnet, accompanied by a small son, walked out a few hundred yards from his house in search of timber to make ax handles. Benson was killed...
Burnet County, Texas After following an Indian trail for about eight miles during 1862, Capt. John Barton, Newton Murphy, Jesse Calvert, Wm. Allen and approximately four more were eating their lunch, when, to their surprise, fifteen savages began...
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