Outlaws

The Post Oaks of the 1870sEast of San Antonio, exists a series of watersheds beginning with the Salado, and continuing to the Rocillo, the...

Robert James (R. J.) Lennix was a pillar of the East Bexar Community of Mount Olive....

A visit to old Bexar County east of San Antonio, Texas reveals numerous historic churches. They were the places where the first European settlers...

On December 15th 1900, Blas “Bill” Tudyk was thirty-three years old, 5’11” tall, and weighed one hundred and sixty-five pounds. He had light brown...

Civil War LegacyAfter the Civil War, the children of  its veterans, hardened by the death and mayhem, often turned to violence. The post oaks...

...As Martin arrived at the middle of the bridge Scarborough assured him that he would have safe passage. The two then proceeded toward El Paso and the meeting with Beulah. As they reached the American side, two men, hidden in a patch of sunflowers, stood with guns in hand. Martin jerked his pistol and was hit by eight slugs. His last words were reported to be, “Boys, I think you’ve killed me.” Beulah and John Wesley Hardin were the only mourners present when Martin was buried in Concordia Cemetery in El Paso. A few months later John Wesley Hardin joined him in eternity a couple of graves away. Hardin, it is believed, was killed by the very lawmen with whom he had failed to divide Martin’s bankroll...

Tom Secrest was born in Texas about 1852.  He was the son of John M. Secrest...

William H. Irvin was one the early settlers along the old Gonzales Road in the vicinity...