david921866Apr 81 minFayette Smith’s Last BattleOn April 8, 1864, thirty-two-year-old Fayette Smith from Navasota, Texas, was wounded at the Battle of Mansfield in Louisiana. Not his...
david921866Mar 81 minConrad Meuly – 1812-1865Swiss born merchant, Conrad Meuly, came to the Republic of Texas from New York with silk hose, scarves, and bolts of expensive fabrics....
David A BowlesAug 28, 20232 minAustin’s First Cabinet MakerLorenzo Van Cleve arrived in the spring of 1839, months before the town of Austin was founded. Newly elected President Mirabeau Lamar had...
David A BowlesAug 16, 20231 minJohn A. RowlandThe owner of the Taos Trading Post, John A. Rowland, paid sixty dollars in silver for the return of nine-year-old Fayette Smith. The boy...