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Gus T. Jones Retires From F. B. I.
Account of Gus T. Jones who served two years as a Texas ...

Rural Free Delivery In Montague County
By Renne Allred, Sr.
Account details first establishment of rural mail delivery by the ...

Sitting Bull, The Sioux
By J. Marvin Hunter
Account of Sitting Bull, the noted Sioux warrior and tribal leader of ...

Texan Plotted Conquest of California
By Hunter Anderson. 
Edward A Weyman was a veteran Naval officer, border sheriff, forty ...

Vengeance Of Rain-In-The-Face
Morve L. Weaver
In 1894, only eighteen years after the defeat of Custer's command at the battle of ...

Killing Of John Bowles In 1859
Rev. H. G. Horton, Bishop, Texas
Account of a bloody Comanche raid that occurred in 1859 ...

Rangers Rescue Three Children
This is the account of the heroic pusuit that occurred autumn of 1862 with a detachment of ...

Murder Of Alwilda McDonald and Her Mother
By Leonard Passmore, Voca, Texas
TOM McDONALD was an old pioneer who came ...

Texas Rangers Battle with Outlaws In 1880
This story is the report of Sergeant E. A. Sieker to Captain D. W. ...

Murder of Mr. and Mrs. Riggs and Mr. Pierce
Account of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Riggs and a ...

Big Tree’s Rage in Montague County
By W. A. Morris, Montague, Texas
Account of January 4, 1863, Indian chief Big Tree ...

The Scalping Of Matilda Friend
By George Reeves
JUST AFTER THE CLOSE of the Civil War the Counties of Mason ...

Killing of Dan Arnold and Lapoleon Lemmons
By J Warren Hunter
Account of a desperate and daring struggle between Comanches ...

Bass Outlaw
By Eugene Cunningham

They say that he had but one qualification of the true Texas ranger, this small, ...

P. C. Baird, The ‘Old Sleuth’
By J. Marvin Hunter

ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING characters of early days in Southwest ...

Samuel Augustus Maverick, Texas Patriot

Includes photo of Mrs. Mary Adams Maverick

Lengthy and detailed account of Samuel Augustus Maverick, ...

George Saunders’ First Trip
By J. Marvin Hunter

One of the outstanding characters among the pioneer cattlemen of Texas history ...

"Three-Legged Willie" Williamson

Robert M. Williamson is fondly remembered in a speech by Hon. George Clark of Waco. Brief account ...

Captain Shapley P. Ross

Captain Ross is remembered as the settler who "did more to free Texas from hostile Indians, ...

Major James M. Hunter

Account of the life of Major James M. Hunter, for many years a citizen of Mason ...