Young County, Texas To describe a gigantic Indian raid, when a large number of blood-thirsty warriors break into smaller bands and each division simultaneously depredated upon a frontier community, in many respects, is not unlike attempting to...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Building at Heritage Village Heritage Village Museum P.O. Box 888 Highway 190 West Woodville, Texas 75979 409-283-2272 or 800-323-0389 info@heritage...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts Wounded Knee Battleground By 1890, no Indians live freely in the West. Furthermore, Congress has cut back Indian appropriations, provoking hunger and the outbreak of disease. Sitting Bull is...
Taylor County, Texas Capt. Jack Wright, Dick Cunningham, and Isaac Reed of Comanche County, Elic Powers and Geo. Gentry of Hamilton County, Luther Allen of Coryell County, Alexander from Camp Colorado, and about five others during 1862, followed...
Young County, Texas During June 1874, James P. Wright and a Mexican, employed by J.C. Loving, were sent out to ride the range. Wright and the Mexican agreed to separate and work in different directions, in order to expedite the handling of cattle...
Jack County, Texas It was about 1864 that Milton (Dock) Wynn, Buck Sanders, B.L. Henry, Thompson, Frank Lane, Luke Choate, and one or two others who were out cow-hunting near Wynn-Hill, west of Jacksboro, had a bitter engagement with the Indians...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America The Wyoming Valley "massacre" was a military battle in the American Revolutionary War that took place in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley on July 3, 1778, in which more...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The following is from the book, Indian Wars, by Bill Yenne. On August 15, three companies of 9th Infantry under Major Robert Garnett and one company of the 4th Infantry Regiment under...
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