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

Early Day Stage Robbers
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
During the 1870s and 1880s, before the railroads penetrated Central West Texas, ...

Old Navajoe
Edward Everett Dale
This is story of the town of Navajoe, TX which no longer exists. Yet, in ...

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, ...

The Passing of Capt. John R. Hughes
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
Account of Captain John R. Hughes, a banker who ...

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

Sam H. Gilliland Has Eventful Life
J. Marvin Hunter, Sr.
This is the first-hand account of the life of Samuel ...

Ben Thompson wins a Tombstone
It was said of the notorious desperado Ben Thompson, "to offend him was to invite ...

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

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, ...

Surveyed in the Plains Country
by W. S. Adair
This article first appeared in the Dallas News, 1923. Follows the life ...

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

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

When the Cherokees Caused Trouble
By J. Marvin Hunter
In 1836 the 50,000 Texans then fighting for independence from Mexico were beset ...

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

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

The Thermopylae of America
Accounts of how the name "alamo" came to be associated with the fort, the Front of ...