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...
david921866Feb 92 minAustin LyceumThe Austin Lyceum was granted a charter on February 5, 1841. The first charter issued for a learned society in the Republic of Texas. E....
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...
David A BowlesJan 10, 20231 minLewis JonesWhile researching my earliest ancestors in Texas, I discovered a series of letters in the archives of “The Center for American History at...