Topics (click on a topic to jump to that section) Day Trip to Fort Parker Day Trip to Fort Parker, July, 2004 by Wendi Lundquist We started out this day trip heading southeastward on Highway 287 to Mansfield. This town developed when, in Fort Worth...
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...
I want to emphasize that the red flagged locations are approximate and the mileage is provided solely for the purpose of tempting the imagination of one viewing through the windshield. All property beyond the fences is private and it is dangerous...
Back to Blood Trails Historical Markers for Milam County Historical Markers for Williamson County James O. Rice Historical Marker Marker Title: James O. Rice Address: North from SH 290 11.3 miles to FM 1660/FM 973 intersection, 8 mi. S of Taylor on...
On the left side of Highway 4, on December 23, 1871, Green Lasater left the ranch house in search of missing horses. His brother, A. M., was busy chopping wood. When Green was two miles east of Perrin, he saw eight Indians with a herd of stolen...
A few miles north and to the right of 254, past the intersection with 1191, June 16, 1871, W. B. Slaughter and his cowboys had a joint round-up with Goodnight and Loving's outfits and camped near each other on Dillingham Prairie near Rock Creek. On...
Big Foot Wallace Drive Click on the map to enter the Brazos Valley Road Trip In 1860, Nick Lee was carrying the mail from Stephenville to Jacksboro. When he failed to reach his destination, a party found his dead body victim of an Indian attack. In...
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...
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