Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps (Brownwood) Brown | Callahan | (Robert Lee) Coke | Coleman | Comanche | Paint Rock) Concho | Eastland | Erath | (Roby) Fisher | Haskell |...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria In August of 1856, young Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors stopped a mail coach on the Platte Trail and demanded some tobacco. The driver was wounded as he raced to make his escape. The...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria County Frontier Historical Markers Maps Atascosa | Bandera | (San Antonio) Bexar | (Johnson City) Blanco | Burnet | (New Braunfels) Comal | Frio | (Fredricksburg) Gillespie | (San...
Navarro County, Texas The countryside remained dangerous. Three years later, on October 6, 1838, the Telegraph and Texas Register reported: The country between the Colorado and Gonzales is very much infested with Indians. It is not safe to go from...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Texas History Museum 800 N. Congress Avenue at the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd) Austin, TX 78711 [email protected]...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the Mountain Pacific Forts The Fort In the summer of 1840, Sutter, using both his growing work force and local Indians, began building what would become an adobe fort. The walls were 2.5 feet thick and 15...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Alamo | Alamo Village | Bird's Fort | Buffalo Gap | Camp Cooper | Camp Mabry | Enchanted Rock | Fort Anahuac | Fort Belknap | Fort Bend | Fort Bliss | Fort Chadbourne | Fort Clark | Fort...
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