Sixteen-year-old Alsey Silvanus Miller traveled alone to Texas in the fall of 1836. After a short stay in Washington County, he made Oak...

Thomas Jefferson Pilgrim was born in Connecticut but got to Texas as soon as he could. He and a group of sixty men arrived at Matagorda,...

On August 12, 1840, the largest Indian battle ever fought on Texas soil took place on Plum Creek in Caldwell County. The battle between...