For John Wesley Hardin, May 26 had great importance. May 26, 1853. John Wesley Hardin is born near Bonham, Texas. Over the next two decades, he...
Birth and Death in the Texas Spring
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Comanche
Billy Dixon’s “Shot of the Century”
The 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge reserved much of the Texas Panhandle as hunting lands for the Indians, however white buffalo hunters ignored the...
The Horse Returns to North America
The end of the Pleistocene epoch, a geological period spanning roughly 2.5 million to 12,000 years ago brought about climate change to animals in...
A Tall Tale of Two Women: Part 2 – Cynthia Ann Parker
Cynthia Ann Parker was born to Silas and Lucinda Parker (nee Duty) in Crawford County, Illinois. She was born about 1824. In about 1834, they...
Buffalo Hump’s Raid
Most are familiar with Buffalo Hump in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. He was a fictional character but there really was a Buffalo Hump. His name...
Native History Celebrated Large
Only months old, the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City is dedicated to truth-telling. It was once called Indian Territory, a dumping ground as...
James Ohio Pattie
The first American trappers to enter Arizona, according to the best records, arrived in 1826. The party listed among its members three men destined...
Rangers and Ranger Wannabes
Rangers have always occupied a special place in American history. During the Seven Years War or French and Indian War. In 1755 Captain Robert Rogers...
Spark on the Prairie
Hit the road across Oklahoma and Texas to discover the history behind the Warren Wagon Train Raid and the Kiowa Indian Trial of 1871. It...
The Battle of Plum Creek
TEXAS AUGUST 1840 Under the Comanche moon of August 1840, 400 to 1000 warriors under Buffalo Hump cut a swath of destruction on a vengeance ride...
John Wesley Hardin’s Last Notch
Charles Webb angered the outlaw and paid the price. Brown County (TX) Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb is best known as the last victim of John Wesley...
The Translator Dave Cerday did more than just interpret for Comanches and the government.
Dave Cerday is one of those names that is more or less lost to history. The half-Comanche was not really accepted by the tribe or the whites, so he...