After the preceding episode, Wm. Hope, Geo. Van Pelt, Mathew B. Wilkins, Wm. Holmes, Charles Montague, Peter Wallace, and possibly one or two others had been gathering horses three miles east of Fort Davis. While driving the horses home late in the...
Needing time to catch its breath and assess the situation, the army conducted a series of councils. Plains warriors gladly met with their old trading partners in 1863 and accepted gifts and promised friendship though they made it clear they intended...
During 1865, Tom Stark, Abe Hunter, and Jim Dofflemyre, who lived near the mouth of the Concho, where Runnels, Coleman and Concho Counties come together, had been to El Paso, for supplies, and other purposes, and were returning home. These three...
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During 1867, while several cowmen were having a roundup in Runnels and adjoining counties, and holding a large number of cattle they heard a gun fire over the hills, and it was soon discoveNative Americans were near. For some time there was...
DISCOVERY South Pass City began with a boom in 1867 with the discovery of gold on the southeastern end of the rugged Wind River Mountains. By 1868, Wyoming's City of Gold boasted over 250 buildings along the banks of Willow Creek and the surrounding...
John Schreiber who lived on the D'Hanis, while out hunting his oxen, during 1866, was killed by savages, about nine miles south of the present town of D'Hanis. Note: Author interviewed Joe Ney. The above story is from the book, The West Texas...
Salt Creek Fight W. C. "Uncle Billy" Kutch at the monument on the site of the Salt Creek Indian battle. This site is between Jean and Olney and about one mile north of the highway. Lemley Cemetery Historical Marker Marker Title: Lemley...
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