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Gerome Shield, the Fearless Sheriff
Gerome W. Shield, Cattleman, resident of Tom Green county since 1883, hide and animal inspector from 1888 ...

Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
Sergeant John B. Charlton
Sergeant John B. Charlton, who died at Uvalde in 1922, furnished Frontier ...

The Mormon's First and Last Drive
Hugh M. Lincecum
In the spring of 1873, J. A. and T. E. Van Ness, ...

Callahan County Pioneer Passes Away
[Note: This is exceptional early genealogy and history of Callahan County, TX]
Account of J. ...

A Great Indian Raid In Young County
By John Warren Hunter 
Lengthy and detailed account given by eye-witness Mr. ...

Moore's Defeat On The San Saba
In consequence if the repeated and continued inroads of the Indians through 1837 and 1838, at ...

From Loyal Valley, Mason County, Texas, To New Mexico In A Covered Wagon
By Jim Hyatt, Deming, N. M.
First ...

Thomas Jefferson Latham
By T. C. Richardson
Thomas Jefferson Latham, was a resident of Texas for seventy years. He was ...

"Injun Fightin" With The Texas Rangers
Events of this account occurred in Mason Co., in 1875. This is excellent history of ...

An Emigrant’s Vengeance
Julius Schutze
Account of the terrible treatment of one German settler in the Fredrickburgs area in ...

Texan Plotted Conquest of California
By Hunter Anderson. 
Edward A Weyman was a veteran Naval officer, border sheriff, forty ...

The Mystery Woman at Fort Concho
Long about 1870 there appeared among the wild dare-devil element of Fort Concho a reckless ...

The Tramp Sheepman of the Pecos
Hardships and successes of Sheepmen of Pecos County
Further Mentions:Characters: Willis, The Tramp ...

Texas Rangers Battle with Outlaws In 1880
This story is the report of Sergeant E. A. Sieker to Captain D. W. ...

"Three-Legged Willie" Williamson

Robert M. Williamson is fondly remembered in a speech by Hon. George Clark of Waco. Brief account ...

Captain Shapley P. Ross

Captain Ross is remembered as the settler who "did more to free Texas from hostile Indians, ...

Davy Crockett, Hero And Congressman (On the Cover)
Excellent account of the great frontiersman and Alamo hero who was born ...

Mirabeau B. Lamar
Brief life history of the man who when Gen. Houston's first term was out, was by a ...

Elisha Marshall Pease
ELISHA M. PEASE, was born in Connecticut in 1812, and came to Texas in 1835. He was a lawyer ...

James Stephen Hogg
James Stephen Hogg was born in Cherokee county, Texas, March 24, 1851. He was the son of General James ...