#historicalwesternfiction

Andrew Jackson

1767-1845 Andrew Jackson boarded in the home of Christopher and Mary Taylor in Jonesborough (the oldest town in Tennessee). The...

Lewis Jones

While researching my earliest ancestors in Texas, I discovered a series of letters in the archives of “The Center for American History at...

Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell 1818-1875

Born in Illinois prior to it becoming a state, Lucien’s father Hugh Maxwell was an Irish immigrant. His mother was French nobility....

The Last Cattle Drive in Travis County

Family and friends gathered at the home of John W. Bowles on the Old Ferry Road in Spicewood, Texas. A drought in 1946 lowered Lake...

Andrew Jackson - 1767-1845

Andrew Jackson boarded in the home of Christopher and Mary Taylor in Jonesborough (the oldest town in Tennessee). The Christopher Taylor...

Death of Austin’s First Daughter

On January 2, 1900, Elnora Van Cleve-Brown died at her home near the confluence of the Pedernales and Colorado Rivers in Travis County,...