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Jack Hays, the Famous Texas Ranger

By Rex Wertenberg. Among the prominent men who made themselves conspicuous by their talents ...

The Killing of Ludwig Spaeth
By Leonard Passmore.
Account of extraordinarily brutal slaying of German Immigrant, Mr Spaeth by Indians ...

Faithful Negro Wields Axe in Big, Fight.
April, 1848 Account of one of the most desperate hand-to hand struggles known in ...

Across the Plains in 1849
Uncle Larry Gooding, well known in printing and newspaper circles in North Texas in the early ...

Erath's Famous Fight
Late in 1836, in accordance with a previously agreed plan looking to the special protection of Robertson's Colony, ...

Desperate Fighting at Adobe Walls
What is known as the Adobe Walls fight on the Canadian River in Hutchinson County, 1874, ...

An Early Day Texas School
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Account of the frontier school which stood on the bank of ...

Memoirs of Mrs. Maverick
Excerpt from the Memoirs of Mrs. Maverick. Detailed and entertaining account of the life and times ...

Childhood Memories
By Mrs. L. A. Scott, McKinney, TX. 
Tells of grandfather, R. R. Royall who landed at Matagorda ...

Only 19 Survivors Of The Mexican War
Various personal and autobiographical perspectives on the 1846-48 Mexican war from some of the 19 ...

Burnet County Pioneers
Account of E. E. Brooks, and his wife pion­eers of Burnet county, TX. He was born ...

Young Saunders Predicament
Account of a young man named Saunders who settled in Erath county. While on a visit to ...

Tragedies in Blanco, Mason, Kimble And Gillespie Counties
Josiah Wilbarger
Various Indian brutalities on the settlers in Blanco, Mason, Kimble ...

Governor John Ireland
By J. Marvin Hunter.
John Ireland, fifteenth Governor of Texas, was born in Hart county, Kentucky, June 1...

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

Historic Bandera Pass
By J. Marvin Hunter
Ten miles north of the town of Bandera, Texas, is historic Bandera Pass, ...

The Old Time Country Schools
By J. Marvin Hunter.
In the late 1800's the country schools in Texas were somewhat ...

The Beautiful Reincarnation Plate
Resides at Museum in Bandera from the Golden Temple to Krishna in Benares, India is more ...

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

Dr. Travis M. Harrell, Texian
By J. Marvin Hunter.
One character on the Texas frontier who has never been given ...