Part of our in-depth series exploring Sioux Nation Forts The following story and picture is from the book, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars, by Gregory F. Michno. Whitestone Hill 3 September 1863, Whitestone Hill: Launching his Missouri River column in...
R.B. Marcy | Marcy's 1849, 51, & 54 Expeditions | Red River, Preston and Gainesville, 1853 | Prairie Traveler | California Trail W.B. Parker, a traveling companion of R.B. Marcy's 1853 trip into Texas, describes in his book, Through Unexplored...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Northern Early America The Henry Whitfield House was built in 1639 when Guilford was first settled by Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England. They sailed directly to New Haven, settled in...
Williamson County, Texas The following story is from the book, A Cry Unheard, by Doyle Marshall. On October 1, 1839, at the present site of Georgetown, all thirteen men of the John Webster party were massacred by a large band of Comanches, but only...
Parker County, Texas About 1863, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Welch and children lived close to the Clear Fork of the Trinity about seven miles west of Springtown, and in the northern part of Parker County. One morning, Mrs. Welch sent her two sons to the home...
Palo Pinto County, Texas The following story is from the book, The West Texas Frontier, by Joseph Carroll McConnell. Henry Welty, like B.F. Baker, and Wm. M. Peters, numbered among the first settlers of Palo Pinto County. Mr. Welty built his log...
Gillespie County, Texas February 22, 1870, A. Walker and D.E. Moore, who lived in Legion Valley in Llano County, started to Fredericksburg with a load of bacon. When they had driven their oxen about six or seven miles and were about four or five...
Montague County, Texas Mrs. Sarah Ann Walker and three children, who lived in the Illinois Bend of Red River and in the northeastern part of Montague County, had been to visit a neighbor about six hundred yards away. When Mrs. Walker's brother was...
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