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The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men. [1]: 64 The Texas Rangers Company B had been sent to the area to stop banditry after the Brite Ranch ...
The Tenth Street Freedman's Town is a historic African American community in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas.A freedmen's town is a community settled by formerly enslaved people who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War.
A historically African-American municipality, known in various areas as "freedmen's town", ... In Texas, 357 such "freedom colonies" have been located and verified ...
On May 14, 1841, Brig. Gen. Edward H. Tarrant, known as “Old Hurricane,” led a militia of 69 men from Red River County to quell Native American raids in North Texas.
American Moses Austin was authorized as an empresario by Joaquín de Arredondo of Spain to create a colony of Americans in Texas, which was lightly populated, as a bulwark against the native Comanche people. Before this plan could be implemented, Moses Austin died in Missouri in 1821. That same year Mexico gained independence from Spain.
Texas historian Jennifer Logan wrote that Coahuiltecan culture represents "the culmination of more than 11,000 years of a way of life that had successfully adapted to the climate and resources of south Texas.” [13] The peoples shared the common traits of not farming, living in small autonomous bands, and having no political unity above the ...
The Killough massacre is believed to have been both the largest and last Native American attack on white settlers in East Texas. The massacre took place on October 5, 1838, near Larissa, Texas, in the northwestern part of Cherokee County. There were eighteen victims, including Isaac Killough, Sr., and his extended family (viz. the families of ...
A growing number of Americans are bringing guns to the airport, but not all of them are creatively hidden. ... Texas. 2. A replica IED attached to a walkie talkie was found at El Paso ...