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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 ...

An Early Day Sheriff's Experience
By J. B. Gillett, Ex-Sergeant
Account of J. H. Comstock sheriff of Menard county. Interesting ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Came to Texas in an Ox-Wagon
Mrs. Florence Lanham, Nimrod, TX. Jane Wetherby Ferguson was born in Lawrence county -....