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Ben Dragoo's Race for Life
Exciting and eye-witness tale of noted ranger, Benjamin Crawford Dragoo who was born in Washington ...

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

Mrs. Mary White, Pioneer Mother
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Account of the life of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip White, who ...

The Great Storm at Ogallala in 1882
Edgar Beecher Bronson
Account describes a tremendous, sudden storm and the subsequent flood that ...

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

Helped to Blaze the Way for Civilization
Account of early Bosque County settler, W. S. Powell who came to Texas ...

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

Military Outpost in Coleman County
Henry C. Fuller.
Camp Colorado, near Jim Ned Creek. Est. August 1856. From here would come ...

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

Fight With Indians At Loving’s Ranch
Great eye-witness account (that’s what’s so great about the Hunter’s ...

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

When Camels Roamed Over Texas
R. C. Crane 
With the establishment of forts at strategic points over the west, ...

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

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

One Of Our Texas Queens
By J. Marvin Hunter
Account of Mrs. Birdie Crosby Harwood, of Marble Falls, Texas. Mrs. ...

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

Vengeance Of Rain-In-The-Face
Morve L. Weaver
In 1894, only eighteen years after the defeat of Custer's command at the battle of ...

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

Murder of Mr. and Mrs. Riggs and Mr. Pierce
Account of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Riggs and a ...

Captain Shapley P. Ross

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