Palo Pinto County, Texas After Jesse Veale was killed and sometime during the year 1873, or early in 1874, the Indians made a horse-stealing raid through Fortune Bend, about nine miles northwest of Palo Pinto, and stole a large Bay mare that W.C...
Palo Pinto County, Texas 940-325-2557 Lakes and Parks Lake Mineral Wells State Park, Possum Kingdom Lake, Lake Palo Pinto Points of Interest Baker Hotel Bat World Boudreau Gardens Herb Farm Crazy Water Hotel Famous Water Company, founded in 1913 by...
Palo Pinto County, Texas The surviving old timers interviewed by the author, were not in accord concerning the name of Fred Colley or Coler. One individual called him Cola, another Fred Coler, and others, Fred Colter, and Dutch Fred. But several...
Palo Pinto County, Texas The following story is Captain R.B. Barry's first hand account of his Ranger duties from the book, Indian Depredations in Texas, by J.W. Wilbarger. On one occasion Captain Peter Garland, who was following an Indian trail...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Shortly after the close of the Civil War, and during the summer or early fall of 1865, Ben and John Caruthers, Lim Vaughan, and four or five others, were cow-hunting between the Big and Little Keechi, about three miles south...
Palo Pinto County, Texas Johnnie Hale, a son of Jeff Hale, and Martin Cathey, his uncle, started to Weatherford for a two-fold purpose, and left home about the third or fourth of July 1868. The boys lived at the time, in and near Palo Pinto. Jackson...
Palo Pinto County, Texas As usual, those interviewed slightly varied concerning dates, distances, etc., when they related the story of Steve Brannon and Mrs. Cohen. But Mr. Brannon lived a mile or two westward of the present city of Strawn in Palo...
Palo Pinto County, Texas The little community of Brazos is situated in the area where Big Foot reported he was captured by Comanches while eating the finest pecans he had ever tasted. Take 129 east from Santo and admire the landscape Big Foot found...
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