Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria The following story is from the book, Carbine & Lance, The Story of Old Fort Sill, by Colonel W.S. Nye; Copyright © 1937 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Highway 82 More Stories and Information on Fort Tours Road Trips In the late 1750s, the Spanish sent an army of five hundred to punish the Comanche, Wichita and their French allies at...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria In the spring of 1857 Col. E. V. Sumner, commander at Ft. Leavenworth, took the field in an effort to subdue the Cheyenne Indians who had been making life unpleasant for emigrants on the...
The Valley Map (Southern Tip of Texas) Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: of Historical Destinations Bigfoot | Brackettville | Carrizo Springs | Castroville | Concan | Cotulla | Devine | Eagle Pass | Freer | Hondo | Jourdanton | Laredo | Lytle | Medina |...
Coryell County, Texas Late in the evening of September 24, 1865, B.F. Gholson hobbled two horses near the Asa-Langford Ranch, about six hundred yards south of the present town of Evant. They had not been there long when twelve Indians came along and...
Burnet County, Texas During 1869, Marion and Columbus Smith, A.H. Edwards, Jim and Wm. Strains, Tom Cates, and possibly one or two more, while scouting for Indians, encountered the savages about six miles north of Burnet. There were about twenty...
Menard County, Texas Tullos B. Smith was returning late in the evening to his home in Menard, from the Wilkerson Ranch, about sixteen miles away, was mounted on a large black pony, and was leading about two other horses. As he passed a cluster of...
'Captain Tumlinson was commissioned to raise a company on the Colorado, and early in January, 1836, he reported for duty with a company of sixty mounted men, myself included. We were assigned to duty on the head waters of Brushy Creek, some thirty...
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