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The Story Of A Young Emigrant's Suffering
Account of a settler, a Scotchman, "McLeod" and his Irish wife Nora, who ...

The Indian Hollow Fight In Llano County
By Joe V. Latham.
INDIAN HOLLOW is situated in the southeastern part of ...

Big Celebration At Denison In 1874
By W. W. Hornbeck, Mountain Home, Texas.
Account describes the events associated with the arrival ...

The Adams Diggings
By Max Coleman, Lubbock, Texas.
Coleman says, “there are a thousand and one explanations, stories and legends ...

A Texan's Opportunity
By Max Coleman, Lubbock, Texas.
Story of a cowboy opportunist, John B. Kendricks. He grew up to ...

The Fall Of The Alamo
Account of the notable event which inspired the victory of San Jacinto, and Texas’ freedom.
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The Great Southwest
By Purple Sage (P. S. McGeeney)
From "Idle Moments of a Vagabond," revised from "Memory's Archives." Mentions: ...

Texans In Utah In 1857
By Charles Kelly, Salt Lake City, Utah
NEARLY everyone who has read western history knows something ...

Expedition To Re-Establish Old Ft. Phil Kearney
By Upton Lorentz, Comfort Texas
In 1874, Grant being president and General Sherman in ...

Frontier Sheriffs Played Important Role
By Max Coleman, Lubbock, Texas
Among all of the important roles played by pioneer settlers ...

Passing of a Stage Driver
by J. Marvin Hunter. Account of well known frontier character, William J. Ellis, describes events ...

A Cowboy Poet
by John White
Account of famous cowboy poet, D. J. O'Malley.
Mentions: the N-Bar-N ranch in Eastern ...

Zachary Taylor's Encampment at Corpus Christi
By Coleman McCampbell. CORPUS CHRISTI first came into national prominence with the encampment ...

The Texas Petroleum Industry
It was in 1895 that the American Well and Prospecting company, contractors, while sinking a well for ...

Fort Davis Opened Trail Through Bad Lands of Texas
San Antonio Express. This is an excellent, detailed and fairly lengthy ...

Ben Thompson, Slain 50 Years Ago, Still Talked About
San Antonio Express. On the night of March 11, 1884, Ben Thompson and John ...

Ben Thompson and Billy Sims
by Captain J. B. Gillett. Mentions lesser known details regarding the exploits of notorious Ben ...

Sarah Ware Kincheloe - Frontier Heroine
By Aileen Penley Baldwin. Remarkable and riveting account of a true heroic pioneer. Sarah ...

Ludwig Spaeth Killed by Indians
By J. Marvin Hunter

Among the many tragedies of the early frontier, there was none ...

Gen. Houston at San Jacinto
Tex Oran

The San Jacinto campaign lasted one month and 11 days, beginning properly on March 11, 1836, ...