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Jack Hays, the Famous Texas Ranger

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

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 ...

The Lost Gold Mine of the Guadalupe Mountains.
L. H. Davis. This interesting story appeared in the El Paso Times ...

Murder of James H. Sewell by Indians in 1871.
By John Warren Hunter.
This eye-witness account of the murder of James ...

The Battle of Adobe Walls.
Olive K. Dixon. 
The location of these much talked of battle grounds is in ...

Remarkable Story of a Very Old Man – Amasa Clark
By J. Marvin Hunter
Indeed, a remarkable story of a great ...

Pearl Hart, Arizona Woman Bandit
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Account of Pearl Hart, a good girl turned bad, who was ...

Pat Garrett, Slayer of Billy the Kid
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Much has been written about Billy the Kid, famous ...

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

W. D. Boydstun, Pioneer Merchant
Account of Will D. Boydstun, long-time pioneer dry goods merchant of Baird, TX. Mr. Boydstun ...

The Chihuahua Trail
Much history has been written about the Santa Fe Trail; little about the Chihuahua Trail. Yet, statistics ...

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 Indian Gave Masonic Distress Sign
Account by W.R. Russell, of band of Lipan Indians near town of Leakey ...

The Beginning of Civilized Texas
“The story of Texas begins with the time when the first civilized man beheld its ...

A Texas Frontier Journalist
V. O. Key, Jr.
"Two-gun" men, "boot" hills, bank robbers, cattle "rustling" fence wars, reckless cowboys ...

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

Robert Edward Lee
Robert L. Taylor
Mr. Taylor offers this excellent sketch of the life of this consummate man of ...