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Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Karnes County, Texas and her history =Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in Karnes County, Texas. Point of Contact For This Page:Karnes County was formed on February 4, 1854 from parts of Bexar, DeWitt, Goliad, Gonzales, and San Patricio Counties. The county seat is Karnes City. However, Helena (the former "toughest town on earth") was the county seat from 18...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Kaufman County, Texas. Official Website The county was established in 1848 and was named for David S. Kaufman, a U.S. Representative and diplomat from Texas. Adjacent Counties Hunt County Rockwall County Van Zandt County Henderson County Ellis County Dallas County Cities Combine (part) Cottonwood Crand...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kent County, Texas. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1892. It was named for Andrew Kent, who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Adjacent Counties Fisher County Scurry County Stonewall County Crosby County Dickens County King County Garza County Cities & Communities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kendall County, Texas. Official Website For a complete history, please see: Wikipedia . The county was created in 1862 and named for George Wilkins Kendall, a journalist and Mexican–American War correspondent. Adjacent Counties Gillespie County Comal County Bandera County Blanco County Bexar County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kenedy County, Texas. The county was created in 1921 and was named for Mifflin Kenedy, an early area rancher and steamboat operator. Adjacent Counties Hidalgo County Kleberg County Brooks County Willacy County Communities Armstrong Sarita (County Seat) Links Wikipedia National Register of Historic Pl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kerr County, Texas. Kerr County was formed in 1856 and was named by Joshua D. Brown for his fellow Kentucky native, James Kerr, a congressman of the Republic of Texas. In 1963, Hud starring Paul Newman was filmed at Camp Waldemar in Hunt and in 1975, The Great Waldo Pepper starring Robert Redford was filmed in Kerrville. Adjacent ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kleberg County, Texas. The county was organized in 1913 and was named for Robert J. Kleberg, an early settler. Most of the county's land lies in the famed King Ranch, Adjacent Counties Kenedy County Brooks County Jim Wells County Nueces County Cities, Towns & Communities Kingsville (County Seat) Loyola Beach ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kimble County, Texas. History Prior to the arrival of foreign settlers, the area that later became Kimble County was inhabited by several Native American groups, including the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, and Lipan Apache. The first Europeans to encounter the area were the Spanish, who led several campaigns against the local Ind...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in King County, Texas. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1891. It was named for William Philip King, who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Adjacent Counties Foard County Cottle County Knox County Haskell County Stonewall County Dickens County Communities Dumont Finney Grow Guthrie (County Sea...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Killeen, Bell County, Texas. Official Website Killeen is a military boom town due to it's close proximity to Fort Hood . History In 1881, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its tracks through central Texas, buying 360 acres a few miles southwest of a small farming community known as Palo Alto, which had existed sin...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jim Wells County, Texas. The county was founded in 1911 and was named for James B. Wells, Jr. (1850-1923), for three decades a judge and Democratic Party political boss in South Texas. Adjacent Counties Duval County Brooks County Live Oak County Kleberg County Nueces County San Patricio County Cities & Villages ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, Texas. The county was created in 1858 and organized in 1881. Both the county and its county seat are named for Anson Jones, the fifth president of the Republic of Texas. Adjacent Counties Haskell County Shackelford County Stonewall County Fisher County Taylor County Callahan County Cities & Communit...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hood County, Texas. Official Website Hood County was formed in 1866 and was named after John Bell Hood, a general of the Confederate Army and commander of Hood's Texas Brigade. Adjacent Counties Erath County Palo Pinto County Somervell County Johnson County Parker County Cities & Communities Acton Brazos Be...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Houston County, Texas. It is not to be confused with the city of Houston in Harris County . Houston County was the first new county created under the 9-year Republic of Texas on June 12, 1837. It was named for Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas and Governor of Texas. Adjacent Counties Anderson County Angelina Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Howard County, Texas. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1882 and was named for Volney E. Howard, a U.S. Congressman from Texas. Adjacent Counties Glasscock County Scurry County Sterling County Borden County Mitchell County Martin County Dawson County Cities, Towns & Communities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hudspeth County, Texas. A new county was officially organized from eastern El Paso County in February 1917. It was first to have been called Darlington County, then Turney County, before it was finally named for state senator Claude Benton Hudspeth of El Paso. The land was first inhabited by the Jornada Mogollón Indians c. 900-1350 ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hunt County, Texas. First settled in 1839, the county is named for Memucan Hunt, Jr., the first Republic of Texas Minister to the United States from 1837 to 1838 and the third Texas Secretary of the Navy from 1838 to 1839. Adjacent Counties Fannin County Delta County Hopkins County Rains County Collin County Kaufman...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jack County, Texas. Official Website The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1857. It is named for Patrick Churchill Jack and his brother William Houston Jack, both soldiers of the Texas Revolution. Adjacent Counties Archer County Clay County Montague County Palo Pinto County Parker County Wise County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jasper County, Texas. Official Website The county was created as a municipality in Mexico in 1834, and in 1837 was organized as a county in the Republic of Texas. It is named for William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War hero. Adjacent Counties Hardin County Orange County Tyler County Angelina County Newton County...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jeff Davis County, Texas. History Indian pictographs in the Painted Comanche Camp of Limpia Canyon were discovered by the Whiting and Smith Expedition of 1849. In March 1849, Lieutenants William H. C. Whiting and William F. Smith were sent out by Maj. Gen. William J. Worth of the Texas 8th Military Department to look for a route ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jim Hogg County, Texas. Jim Hogg County was formed in 1913 and was named after Jim Hogg, the 20th Governor of Texas, and the first governor born in the state of Texas. Adjacent Counties Duval County Brooks County Webb County Starr County Zapata County Communities Agua Nueva Guerra Hebbronville (County Seat...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hardeman County, Texas. The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1884. It is named for two brothers, Bailey Hardeman and Thomas Jones Hardeman, early Texas politicians and legislators. Adjacent Counties Foard County Wilbarger County Cottle County Childress County Harmon County, Oklahoma Jackson County, O...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hardin County, Texas. The county is named for the family of William Hardin (1801-1839), a settler, judge, and postmaster. The Hardin family cemetery is located north of Liberty. Adjacent Counties Jasper County Jefferson County Liberty County Orange County Polk County Tyler County Cities, Towns & Communities ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hartley County, Texas. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1891. It is named for Oliver C. Hartley and his brother, Rufus K. Hartley, two early Texas legislators and lawyers. Adjacent Counties Dallam County Union County, New Mexico Moore County Oldham County Quay County, New Mexico Cities & Commun...