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Michael R. Waters from Texas A&M University along with a group of graduate and undergraduate students began excavating the Debra L. Friedkin Site in Bell County, Texas in 2006. The site is located 250 metres (820 ft) downstream along Buttermilk Creek from the Gault site ; a Paleo-Indian site excavated in 1998 and found to have deeply stratified ...
Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...
The history of Texas A&M University, the first public institution of higher education in Texas, began in 1871, when the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was established as a land-grant college by the Reconstruction-era Texas Legislature. Classes began on October 4, 1876.
Texas A&M School of Law, formerly Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, is located in Fort Worth. [50] [51] Texas A&M maintains the RELLIS Campus, formerly the Texas A&M University-Riverside Campus and Bryan Air Force Base, which was transferred from the university to become a separate entity within the Texas A&M University System in ...
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Howard N. Martin: Fort Teran from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 4 February 2010. Marler, Don. Fort Terán on the Neches River. Dogwood Press, 2000. Marler, Don. "Ft. Teran Site Visit July 1998 Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine." Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas website. Retrieved: 4 February 2010.
The fort was closed in 1848, due to Indian depredations. The last trading trip sponsored by the company was held in the winter of 1848, and in the spring of 1849, [5] William Bent found part of his livestock slaughtered by local Indians. In response he blew up the remains of the interior of the fort and departed the panhandle of Texas. [7]
Alang Fort (also known as Alangad or Alang) is a fort located in the Kalsubai range of the Western Ghats mountains, Nashik, (Maharashtra, India). Alang Fort, Madangad Fort, Kulang Fort, and the trek connecting them are known as Alang, Madan, and Kulang (AMK). Alang Fort is regarded as one of the most difficult places to reach in the region.