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The Noakes Raid
By Miss Ruth Dodson, Mathis, Texas
Article describes the story of the Noakes raid, the Mexican bandit ...

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 ...

A New Mexico Mystery
By W. Byron Neil.
Account of Mr. Neil when, in the summer of 1885 he was captain ...

Mrs. Mary Olive Peril
J. J. Starkey
Account of Mrs. Mary Olive Peril who lived an eventful life, saw many ...

The Assault On The Alamo
By R. M. Potter, in The Texas Almanac, 1868
From the article: "The fall of the ...

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

Thomas Jefferson Latham
By T. C. Richardson
Thomas Jefferson Latham, was a resident of Texas for seventy years. He was ...

The Glory That Was Belle Plain
By J. Marvin Hunter
Account of the historically significant old town of Belle Plain ...

Officers' Fight With Doolin Gang
By R. P. Ironside.
One of the most exciting and perhaps deadliest gun fights staged ...

A Drive From Texas To North Dakota
Samuel Dunn Houston, San Antonio Texas. Excellent day to day account of a ...

Early Day Tribes in Central Texas
by Frank E Simmons
Mentions early colonization and settlement of the area around Bosque ...

"Injun Fightin" With The Texas Rangers
Events of this account occurred in Mason Co., in 1875. This is excellent history of ...

Captain William Eastland
By Mary Johnson Posey
Account of Captain William Eastland, for whom Eastland county, Texas, was named, and ...

 Adventures On The Old Cattle Trail
Veteran trail boss A. Collatt Sanders describes a cattle drive made in 1884, which, ...

Sixty-Seven Years "On The Dodge"
By Odie Minatra.
Account of General William Banks, Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Valley Department of ...

An Emigrant’s Vengeance
Julius Schutze
Account of the terrible treatment of one German settler in the Fredrickburgs area in ...

Jane Long, The Mother Of Texas
By A. J. Sowell
Account of Mrs. Jane Herbert Long, called "The Mother of ...

A. J. Sowell, Ranger and Author
By J. Marvin Hunter.
Account of Andrew Jackson Sowell, who was in his youthful ...