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Located west of Lampasas in San Saba and Lampasas Counties, the park covers the former Gorman and Lemons Ranches above Lake Buchanan, and features slow moving water through the beautiful canyon lands of the Colorado River. The park offers the...
The U.S. Army established Fort McKavett in 1852, but abandoned it by the end of the decade. In 1868, the fort reopened and elements of the U.S. Army's four African American regiments—the Buffalo Soldiers—used Fort McKavett during the Indian...
FRONTIER TEXAS, SENSE-O-RAMA STYLE!
Located in downtown Abilene, Frontier Texas! offers visitors a state-of-the-art, multi-media extravaganza depicting the lively mythology of the Texas frontier. Aided by technology and a fourteen thousand...
Travel Themes
THE BUFFALO WARRIORS
Buffalo Soldiers, a name the Plains Indians gave to the African American cavalry regiments serving the frontier after the Civil War, represent the genesis of the long struggle to integrate both the U.S...
THE END OF AN ERA
The Great Western Trail stretched from South Texas to Nebraska, becoming the primary cattle driving route for Texas by 1879. Also known as the Dodge City Trail and the Fort Griffin Trail, the Western...
TO THE RAMPARTS!
The defense of a territory as big as Texas required investing big resources into the effort-materials and man power, especially-a fact not lost on our Texas ancestors. In fact, far more forts and presidios...
