August 10, 1863, Preacher J. J. Hamilton's two sons, William and Stewart, were killed while returning home from their tannery. William was scalped and an ear was cut off of Stewart's head. The Brown family lived about one and a half miles east of...
New odometer setting at the intersection of Hwys. 199 and 281. Travel 2.25 miles and on the right side is the location of the Gage Family depredations. At 3.65 miles is the site of the demise of the Landman Family, the first victims of Nocona's...
It's not a surprise that Jacksboro Highway offers the quickest route to Fort Richardson. You can reach this shortcut on Loop 820, or you can just follow Henderson Street northwest out of downtown. Ghosts of gamblers and gangsters haunt the sites of...
North on 16, in 1875, Houston Bevers and three others chased six or seven Indians from the Keechi to Flat Top Mountain. Fire was exchanged and a horse and maybe a raider were killed. In June of 1874, James K. P. Wright and another J. C. Loving...
Russell Ranch
Babb Family
Bud Davis
Killing of Long
Sallie Bowman
Raid Near Rhome
Press Perkins
Reading the map from the south, approaching Jacksboro, on the Texas Fort Trail. On the east side of Highway 281, about 1864, Capt. Dillahunty's Rangers commanded by J. W. Sheek were confronted by Indians upon returning from a scouting expedition...
In Stem's Gap at the big bend to the north on 61, Major Stem and his friend Mr. Lepperman, both from Ohio from which Stem had relocated in 1850 after being appointed Special Indian Agent at the Lower Reservation, was killed late in the afternoon...
Back up near Jermyn, several miles east of 1199, in 1864, a handful of cowboys were looking for strays at Wynn Hill when they were attacked by Indians and forced to take refuge in the timber. Milton Wynn was mortally wounded; B. L. Ham and Buck...
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