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Unlikely Warriors is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," and his family on the western frontier.

Found Inside: " The normal winter "raiding holiday" failed to occur in 1870-71. Late in December, war parties crossed the Red and killed three men, a woman, and her child in Parker and Montague counties. In January, Big Bow led twenty-five Kiowa warriors into Young County and attacked four black men who were hauling supplies from Weatherford to their homes near Fort Griffiin. The men after killing their horses for a barricade, fought desperately ... " Read more Look inside   . . . for more like this please see Black Texans in History

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. Found Inside: "I got very sick and at daylight I could see the chuck wagon over there and only one horse in sight. This horse was ridden by the horse wrangler, was Bud Farmer, now of Young County, Texas. He saw my horse standing over there and came to me. . . Read more Look inside

The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). Violent, full of intrigue, with characters of amazing heroism and deplorable cowardice, their story was first related by William Rathmell in Life of the Marlows, a little book published in 1892, shortly after the events it described in Young County, Texas. It told how Boone, the most reckless of the brothers, shot and killed a popular sheriff and escaped, only to be murdered later by bounty hunters. The other four brothers . . . Read more Look inside

Found inside: "It was in Oil City where an ex-con "walked around" the deputy sheriff with a knife. The deputy had fallen dead in front of Clyde. The ex-con made a hasty exit from town, never to be seen again. The slain deputy was replace by another, but this new deputy was shot in the stomach during a saloon brawl. Rees and another man put the injured deputy in a Model T Ford and rushed him the doctor in Graham ... After this shooting the Young County sheriff asked Rees to be a deputy, a job which he accepted in addition to his duties at the hand-laundry. He walked the streets with a .45 caliber Colt pitol on his hip and a sawed-off shotgun in his hand . . . " Read more Look inside

A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier

Found inside: "The furthermost German settlements now reach the San Saba. The extreme settlements of the northern part of the state are near the clear fork of the Brazos, at Fort Belknap, where there is an Indian reservation of forty leagues, and enough American settlers to have formed the new County of Young  . . .  " Read more Look inside

Found inside: "The stage set for the drama was on the Brazos River, at Graham, Young County, Texas, the scene of more than one bloody feud. Here within a decade or two hardy settlers had fought it out with Kiowas and Comanches to hold the land they had squatted upon. The buffalo had been swept away, and the longhorn had drifted westward. Most of the early feuds had their genesis in disputes over cattle . . . " Read more Look inside

Resources:

Early Life in Texas County by County

Books about Texas People and Places

Amazing People from Texas County by County