INDIANS -- Sarah's Story -- Psychological Warfare on the Frontier -- Steven Williamson's Lost Grave -- THE CIVIL WAR -- The Battle of Bull Creek -- Shropshire's Castle -- Confederate Vets Didn't Find July 4 Particularly Exciting -- LAW AND DISORDER -- Two Graves Filled in the Name of Honor -- Waldrip's Wolfpack : The Hangerbande -- Dead Man's Hole -- Hold the Press for a Hanging -- MATTERS OF THE HEART -- Nice Love Letter from a Bad Man -- A Doe and a Bride -- CRITTERS -- A Rooster Gave His All for Texas -- The Old Rebel Bet on a Dead Horse -- Ole Maggie -- CHARACTERS -- Mark Withers -- Lieutenant Will Porter -- Bill Wharton -- Melcher's Exterminator -- Texas' Two-Legged Hogg -- LANDMARKS -- Waco's Cotton Palace -- Sebastopol -- Covert Park, aka Mount Bonnell -- Nameless Cave -- Barton Springs -- Texas' First Public School -- A ROOM FOR THE NIGHT -- Honest Abe? Lincoln Slept Here? -- The Antlers Hotel -- Johnson City's Pearl Hotel -- MYSTERIES AND COULD-HAVE-BEENS -- Is Texas' First Anglo Grave in Lampasas County? -- Austin, Texas, Could Have Been Lamar, Texas -- Digging Up a Mystery -- Dare Devil Rogers -- GHOST TOWNS -- The Athens That Never Was -- Bluffton : Underwater Ghost Town -- Katemcy -- GHOSTS -- Jake's Bridge -- Greer Building Ghosts -- Captain Merrill's Cabin -- TREASURE -- The Old Ranger's Treasure Map -- The Sword in the Tree -- An Antique Weapons Cache Sealed in Concrete? -- GETTING THERE AND BACK -- The Night the Beer Train Wrecked -- An Eighteen-Mile-Long Mud Hole -- LAUGHING MATTERS -- The Mayor Ordered a Wedding -- The Rifle with the Bent Barrel -- The Banker and the Lightning Rod Salesman -- TRADITIONS -- Rock Fences -- Croghan Cobbler -- Memories of Christmas Past : Gingerbread and Gunfire -- New Year's Eve in String Prairie -- The Night They Barbecued Bevo