Baylor County

by Carolyn Bomberger, Baylor County Historical Commission, Baylor County Historical Society

Book Overview

Baylor County was separated from Fanin County in February 1858 out of the Young Territory. Its name honors Henry W. Baylor, an Indian fighter and surgeon in a regiment of Texas Rangers during the Mexican War. The county was not organized, however, until 1879. The depletion of the buffalo herds in the mid-1870s and the defeat of the Comanche in 1874 by the US Army opened the county for settlement. It became a major supply area for the Western Trail,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738579661
• ISBN13: 9780738579665
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"