This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Bold Highwaymen and a Mail Robbery Frontier Mystery
In the 1880s a four horse mail hack on the San Antonio to upper country route was robbed at Big Hill and Balcones Creek by two men known as the long and the short. The Crown and Scott families near Crown were linked to the crime era and a later murder confession amid organ theft and stolen envelopes exposed gang members Harris Pitts Yeager and Frank Scott.
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Kendall
San Almas
Bexar
Big Hill
Fredericksburg
Bal- Creek
Texas
Gillespie Counties
Balcones
San Antonio
Antonio
San Fredericksburg
Harris
Pitts
Crown Place
Scott’s
Crown
Ris
Everyneetom
Frank Scott
Scott
Balcones School
Young
Scott Rank Scott Thany
Alway
Yeager
U. S. Mail
Balcones Creek
Hool House