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July 14, 2022 A Closer Look at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls
With this episode we finish up our series on the Second Battle of Adobe Walls. We learn a little more about the background and we learn a lot about the Native American side of the conflict.
The song at the end, Hi-Line Wild Horses, is by the great Kade Anson!
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
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Website: texashistorylessons.com
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Texas History Lessons Spotlight Artists
Jerrod Flusche
Rosmand – Mando Salas
Zach Welch
Seth Jones
Derrick McClendon
Kade Anson
Randy Hoyet on Spotify
Robert Herrerra
Jacob Charles
Chris Cunningham
Tristyn Sanchez
Jason Harrell
Payton Matous
Bo Bundy
Podcast Recommendations:
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The History Cafe Podcast
Hymns of the Highway Podcast
Off Mic, Off the Record Podcast
Texas River Tonk Podcast TXRiverTonk Podcast
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Tio Bruce's The Greatest Playlist In Texas and Hence the World.
Texas History Lessons Spotlight Artist Spotify Playlist
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50 min
July 01, 2022 Billy Dixon's Memories of the Second Battle of Adobe Walls Part 2
In this episode we return take a look at the man that made the famous shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls and hear from him about what he remembered. This episode shares his memories of the attack and fight. What was it like to actually be there? Listen and hear from someone who experienced it firsthand.
The song at the end, Magenta, is by the great Bo Bundy!
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here!
Help make Texas History Lessons by supporting it on Patreon. And a special thanks to everyone that already does.
Website: texashistorylessons.com
email: [email protected]
Twitter: @TexasHistoryL
Texas History Lessons Spotlight Artists
Jerrod Flusche
Rosmand – Mando Salas
Zach Welch
Seth Jones
Derrick McClendon
Kade Anson
Randy Hoyet on Spotify
Robert Herrerra
Jacob Charles
Chris Cunningham
Tristyn Sanchez
The Oliver White Group
Jason Harrell
Payton Matous
Bo Bundy
Podcast Recommendations:
Wild West Extravaganza Podcast
The History Cafe Podcast
Hymns of the Highway Podcast
Off Mic, Off the Record Podcast
Texas River Tonk Podcast TXRiverTonk Podcast
LINKS:
If you have any photography, videography or aerial photography and video, go visit PANTHER CITY AIR to see how they can fulfill your needs.
Tio Bruce's The Greatest Playlist In Texas and Hence the World.
Texas History Lessons Spotlight Artist Spotify Playlist
301 Productions Spotify Playlist

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1 hr 5 min
June 29, 2022 Billy Dixon's Memories of the Second Battle of Adobe Walls Part 1
With this episode we take a look at the man that made the famous shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls and hear from him about what he remembered. This episode shares his background memories to the days leading up to the conflict. What was it like to actually be there? Listen and hear from someone who experienced it firsthand.
The song at the end, Mi Barrio, is by the great Bo Bundy!
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here!
Help make Texas History Lessons by supporting it on Patreon. And a special thanks to everyone that already does.
Website: texashistorylessons.com
email: [email protected]
Twitter: @TexasHistoryL
Texas History Lessons Spotlight Artists
Jerrod Flusche
Rosmand – Mando Salas
Zach Welch
Seth Jones
Derrick McClendon
Kade Anson
Randy Hoyet on Spotify
Robert Herrerra
Jacob Charles
Chris Cunningham
Tristyn Sanchez
The Oliver White Group
Podcast Recommendations:
Wild West Extravaganza Podcast
The History Cafe Podcast
Hymns of the Highway Podcast
Off Mic, Off the Record Podcast
Texas River Tonk Podcast TXRiverTonk Podcast
LINKS:
If you have any photography, videography or aerial photography and video, go visit PANTHER CITY AIR to see how they can fulfill your needs.
Tio Bruce's The Greatest Playlist In Texas and Hence the World.
Texas History Lessons Spotlight Artist Spotify Playlist
301 Productions Spotify Playlist

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52 min
June 27, 2022 Daily Dose of Texas History - June 27, 1874 - The Second Battle of Adobe Walls
In 1874 a group of buffalo hunters were camped about a mile from the site of where representatives of the trading firm of Bent, St. Vrain and Company had established a trading post in the 1840s.
Ten years later the encamped buffalo hunters, hide men and merchants fought the Second Battle of Adobe Walls on June 27, 1874. The hide hunters had built a number of log buildings and surrounded it with an eight foot high corral fence made from cottonwood tree trunks that they had harvested from nearby creeks. They had two stores, a blacksmith shop, and a saloon. The location served as a place for the buffalo hunters to sell their hides and stock up with supplies.
The Plains tribes were not happy with the situation. The Adobe Walls camp violated the terms of the Medicine Lodge Treaty.
A young Comanche prophet named Isa-tai called for the People to gather for a Sun Dance where he called for vengeance. He claimed they would be invulnerable to the bullets of the hunters. Quanah Parker and hundreds of others answered the call.
Near dawn most of the hunters were trying to repair a ridgepole in Hnrahan’s saloon when the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes led by Quanah Parker and Isa-tai attacked. There were twenty-eight men, including Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon and one woman, Hannah Olds who worked as a cook, in the camp. When the attack began they sought protection of cover in Jim Hanrahan’s Saloon. Myers and Leonard’s Store and Wright’s Store
They lost two men in the first attack, two teamster brothers that had been sleeping outside in their wagon. The attackers also killed a Newfoundland dog. All three were scalped.
The attacks continued until about noon, killing another man. A fourth defender accidentally killed himself by the discharge of his own gun.
The attackers then set siege for about four or five days. They did not launch anymore attacks but set siege for about four or five days. It must have been a grim and tense period of time.
It was on the second day that Willie Dixon made his famous shot. A group of fifteen to twenty Cheyennes appeared on a high mesa overlooking the post and from a distance of seven-eighths of a mile away Dixon fired, shooting one of the warriors off of his horse with his Sharps rifle. He hit the ground before the sound of the shot reached the group. Dixon himself must have been amazed.
Word spread and other buffalo hunters came to the rescue. By the fifth day, when the Plains attackers withdrew from the fight, there were more than 100 defenders at Adobe Walls. The warriors had lost about thirty men, not being invulnerable to the bullets. Quanah himself was wounded and Isa-Tai had his horse shot out from under him. The defenders decorated the corral with twelve Plains warriors heads.
Not long after the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, the United States military launched the Red River War of 1874 to 1875, which led to the Plains tribes settling on the reservations near Fort Sill in Indian Territory.
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
The song at the end of the episode is Kade Anson's Pawnshop Past Palestine.
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15 min
June 19, 2022 Juneteenth and the Power of Perseverance
In June 1939 the Flake family, originally from Marshall, Texas bought a house in the 900 block East Annie Street in Fort Worth, Texas. On June 19, 1939, Juneteenth, a mob numbering near 500 destroyed their home. Why? They were black and had been audacious enough to move into a mostly white area of the north Texas city.
That day should have been a day of celebration for the Flake family. Seventy-four years earlier, in the island city of Galveston, Union troops, many of them being black men serving with the United States Colored Troops, brought news of freedom to the enslaved people of Texas. It was a momentous occasion and word of freedom spread from the coast of Texas and spider webbed its way out and across the countryside to at least 250,000 people held in bondage in the state. General Order Number 3 contained the phrase “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.” But the freedmen and freedwomen and their descendants did not receive absolute equality in reality. The rebels and their descendants, using violence, intimidation and law, placed a number of barriers and hurdles between them and this term, “absolute equality.” But having endured for hundreds of years in slavery, the freed people and their descendants persevered and fought for years more as the state and nation continued to evolve towards this noble goal.
Eighty-two years after the Juneteenth riot and destruction of the Flake family’s home in Fort Worth, and 156 years after the first Juneteenth, a woman named Opal Lee was present in Washington D.C. when President Joe Biden signed the act passed by Congress making Juneteenth a national holiday. She was 94 years old. She had been twelve when her house had been destroyed on Juneteenth 1939.
This episode is an attempt to share the story of Juneteenth and the power of perseverance.
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
The song at the end of the episode is Prayers to a Lesser God by Texas History Lessons spotlight artist, Payton Matous. Check out his new EP and new single everywhere that music is available.
If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here!
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Twitter: @TexasHistoryL

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59 min
May 31, 2022 Daily Dose of Texas History - May 31, 1783 The Death of Fernando Veramendi
On May 31, 1783, a band of Mescalero Apaches killed a man named Fernando Veramendi near the presidio of San Juan Bautista in Coahuila. Veramendi and the Veramendi family played an important part in the early history of Texas and of San Antonio. A San Antonio businessman and alderman, Veramendi was only about forty years old on May 31, 1783 when he was away from home on a business trip to Mexico City when he found himself at the mercy of the Apache raiders.
Fernando had been born in Pamplona, Spain in either 1743 or 1744 and left Spain to practice his merchant trade in New Spain in search of success and wealth. He was in La Bahia, Texas by 1770 and his business occasionally required him to visit San Antonio, where he met and married married Doña María Josefa Granados on April 17, 1776. Her family were one of the famous Canary Islander settler families that had been brought to Texas 1731 to boost settlement of Texas.
After his marriage, his business thrived in San Antonio-he ran a store, loaned out money, and purchased large tracts of land. As his success grew, he gained the wealth to build a wonderful house on Soledad Street. This home became known as the Veramendi Palace.
His success made him a leader in community affairs. Veramendi was an alderman of the ayuntamiento in 1779 and in the year he died, 1783, he was elected senior alderman. His son, Juan Martin de Veramendi, was 4 and a half when his father died. He carried on in his father’s successes and was elected vice governor of Coahuila y Texas in 1830 and was governor from 1832 to 1833. Fernando’s granddaughter and Juan Martin’s daughter, Ursala Maria married the notorious Texas legend Jim Bowie of Alamo fame in 1831, but sadly Juan Martin de Veramendi, wife Josefa, and Ursala Bowie died of cholera in 1833.
As an added note, Ben Milam died in 1835 just outside or just inside the Veramendi house and he was first buried on the house’s grounds before being reinterred elsewhere.
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
The song at the end of the episode is by Texas History Lessons new spotlight artist, Colton Mathis. The song Fight, and a new one, Always Mad, are available everywhere you listen to music...
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15 min
May 11, 2022 Czech Texans and the National Polka Festival with Payton Matous
Let's go to Polkafest on Memorial Day Weekend!
In this episode Payton Matous joins the podcast to talk about the history and heritage of Czech Texans with a special focus on the National Polka Festival in Ennis. Make plans to visit Ennis, Texas in Memorial Day weekend this year and in the future for a great time. Payton is a talented musical artist and graces the show with two unreleased songs. His EP Prayers to a Lesser God was released on May 11, 2022 and the title track ends this episode. Follow him on Twitter: @payton_matous and listen to his music everywhere you listen to music.
The National Polka Festival in Ennis, Texas
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here!
Help make Texas History Lessons by supporting it on Patreon. And a special thanks to everyone that already does.
Website: texashistorylessons.com
email: [email protected]
Twitter: @TexasHistoryL

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45 min
May 05, 2022 Daily Dose of Texas History - May 5, 1718 The San Antonio de Bexar Presidio
On May 5, 1718, Martin de Alarcon founded the San Antonio de Bexar Presidio on the west side of the San Antonio River, about a quarter league from the San Antonio de Valero Mission that had been established on May 1.
Settlement did not happen immediately but the presidio and the mission were the foundation of the Villa de Bexar, the most important town in Spanish Texas.
A lot of history has happened in this very special site near San Pedro Springs. What began as a village of Payaya Coahuiltecans called Yanaguana grew into San Antonio, the second most populous city in Texas and the 12th most in North America. It is the oldest municipality in Texas.

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7 min
May 04, 2022 Daily Dose of Texas History - May 4, 1847
On May 4, 1847, Pope Pius IX established the Catholic Diocese of Galveston. From 1847 until 1874 the diocese covered all of Texas and parts of modern day Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. The Diocese of San Antonio and the Vicariate Apostolic of Brownsville were carved out of it 1874.
Jean Marie Odin was named the Diocese of Galveston’s first bishop and with twelve priests he served 20,000 Catholics that were spread out over about 360,000 square miles. The Diocese included ten already established churches and an Ursuline Sisters convent.
The diocese's first cathedral church is the beautiful St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston that Odin had overseen construction of.
Odin served as bishop until 1861, when he became the second archbishop of New Orleans.
In the mid-1900s the Diocese of Galveston became the Diocese of Galveston-Houston and in 2004 it became the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Today it includes 8,880 square miles of ten counties in the southeastern area of Texas: Galveston, Harris, Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Grimes, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker and Waller.
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
If you are enjoying Texas History Lessons, consider buying me a cup of coffee by clicking here!
Help make Texas History Lessons by supporting it on Patreon. And a special thanks to everyone that already does.
Website: texashistorylessons.com
email: [email protected]
Twitter: @TexasHistoryL
Texas History Lessons Spotlight Artists
Seth Jones

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9 min
May 03, 2022 Daily Dose of Texas History - May 3, 1968 Houston Heart Transplant
On May 3, 1968, a major medical advance occurred at Houston’s St. Luke’s Hospital.
Surgeon Denton Cooley and his associates transplanted the heart donated by a fifteen year old girl to Everett Thomas.
Cooley and Houston doctor Michael E. DeBakey had been working on developing heart surgery to the point that they could do heart transplantation. Cooley got there first and DeBakey and he would have a strange competition for years to come.
Despite the odd rivalry, or maybe because of it, as Chester Burns describes it, Cooley, DeBakey and the teams of medical personnel in Houston “displayed extraordinary courage and technical expertise as they established the world's standards for heart surgery in newborn infants, for replacing diseased arteries with artificial and venous grafts, and for replacing diseased heart valves with artificial ones during open-heart operations.”
Thomas lived for 204 days with the new heart. And for quite a long time life expectancy was short. But with every medical advancement things have improved. People of all ages have heart transplants today and doctors are still searching for new advancements and solutions. Thomas lived for 204 days but now people can live for decades. Living 15 to 20 years after a transplant is becoming the standard result.
The Texas History Lessons Theme song, Walking Through History, was written and recorded by Derrick McClendon. Listen to his new album, Interstate Daydreamer! Available everywhere you find good music. Thank you Derrick! Twitter: @dmclendonmusic
Payton Matous performs Healing Side of Heartbreak at the end of the episode.
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9 min

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Texas History Lessons is a slow walk through Texas history. It takes the time to learn about the many exciting and important people, places and events in Texas history, with a focus on some that are…